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
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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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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Emotion and imaginative piety have become the hand-maids of superstition; and patriotism, lacking courage, has covered its face.
From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Flickinger, Robert Elliott