afraid

Example Sentences

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A couple say they are afraid to go to sleep in case the hillside behind their cottage collapses onto them.

From BBC

"Perhaps shame fades all the more easily when you're 70, and no one pays attention to you anymore. I don't know. I wasn't afraid of my wrinkles, or my body," she confided.

From Barron's

Each of his footsteps made an echo, and for a moment he was afraid that he’d get in big trouble for leaving the group.

From Literature

“If I could, I’d pull up my roots and move to the other side of the mountain, I would. This place is falling apart,” the ones who didn’t want to seem afraid would say.

From Literature

He rubbed his thick black mane back and forth along the chain-link holding area with such force Chase was afraid the wire was going to snap.

From Literature