afraid

Example Sentences

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Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa isn’t afraid to look death in the eye.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

“It’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” one White House aide told the Journal.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

Blunt remembers the movie’s first table read viscerally, how nervous and afraid she was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

"We're constantly afraid," she told AFP outside her front door, above which hung a horseshoe symbolising good luck.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

There is something coppery about it, a metallic smell mixed with the smell of urine and feces, when something, when somebody, is afraid.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen