fearful
Example Sentences
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His mother, fearful for her youngest son, pleaded with him to flee the country.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
At Armstrong's youth programme, it has heightened a sense of community among parents, who set up group chats to co-ordinate lifts for children of fearful families.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Perhaps this data center battle, then, was just the tipping point for widely frustrated and fearful Utahns.
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026
Was the prolonged, severe deflation of the final quarter of the 19th century so very fearful?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Many things were different at Daffodil Manor, and Ophie was fearful at what that would bring out.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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