cowering
Example Sentences
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For Ms. Sweeney and Ms. Seyfried it provides an endless variety of opportunities to run through the soap-opera playbook of screaming, cowering, deceiving and attacking depending on the circumstances, which grow increasingly horrifying.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
Of course, if we had thought about nuclear war every minute of every day, we might indeed have been cowering under our sheets.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
On Friday, Musk shared two side-by-side A.I.-generated images of graffiti-style stencils: a smiling, handsome Kirk, and a cowering, dying Zarutska.
From Slate • Sep. 12, 2025
“It would be a mistake to think California is cowering in the face of this onslaught,” Newsom said in the 2,300-word address accompanied by a shortened video version.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
Her eyes seemed to take in not just the police and Natalie and the three Greystones, but the Gustano kids cowering together, their handcuffs clinking in the sudden silence.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
