lacking courage
Example Sentences
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“I am in a cage, lacking courage, insignificant, flinching and escaping, just like this photo,” she wrote.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2019
Galatasaray coach Fatih Terim has accused ref Svein Oddvar Moen of "lacking courage" during his side's Big Cup defeat to Real Madrid.
From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2013
Lawyer Wendell Willkie, who has never been accused of lacking courage, last week agreed to defend a well-known Communist, and for nothing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A tail, thin, amiable, blond young man. who, because he has never before reached the final in the Amateur, has been accused of lacking courage, Fischer leaned over his ball.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He crossed slowly to the couch and stood by it, as if lacking courage to turn back the rug.
From By Wit of Woman by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)