fearfulness

Example Sentences

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In my office, clients cry in front of me and express their anger; they can get in touch with parts of themselves that have felt deep shame and fearfulness.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2024

Symptoms of this in children include chronic fatigue, anger, poor concentration and fearfulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2023

“My fearfulness of the wrongness of the act soon overwhelmed the happiness it brought me,” she writes.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2021

And the fearfulness that has created this situation has been exposed, time and again, during these protests.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2020

It had taken a while to accustom herself to the bird, to end her fearfulness around it.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry