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
Even Peru's rightists, who for a quarter century had hated Haya de la Torre with a bitterness peculiar to Peru, had seldom accused him of lacking courage.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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Frank is very"—Mrs. Ravenel hesitated, as though lacking courage to speak her fears—"perhaps dangerously ill.
From Katrine by Lane, Elinor Macartney