fearfully
Example Sentences
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Harold’s knights pivot from acclaiming him with open palms and loyal smiles to pointing fearfully at the heavens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
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
"Are you from ICE?" one of the women, a farm worker in a hat and purple bandana, asks us fearfully.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025
Like an emperor has no clothes situation, do we fearfully accept IQ tests as the primary means of measuring intelligence so we will not have our own intelligence challenged?
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024
He lay tossing and turning and listening fearfully to the stealthy night-noises: wind in chinks of rock, water dripping, a crack, the sudden rattling fall of a loosened stone.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
