fearfully

Example Sentences

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Railing about powerlessness is a luxury we might want to save for the moment—should it ever fearfully arrive—in which we have truly got no power left to assert.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

And those people tend to be, on average, more content and happier than ever being fearfully enclosed, always worrying about the next thing.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2024

Who were those girls, the white child fearfully asks.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2023

Videos shared on social media of the immediate aftermath of the quake, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed people fearfully running out of a shopping centre, restaurants and apartment buildings and congregating outside.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2023

The women all stayed in the wattle huts, peering out the door, hiding their children behind their skirts, drawing back fearfully into the darkness of the huts as the strangers came up from the beach.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin