cowered

Lamont cowered, but I marched him out of the room.

We cowered as she searched through the hangers for her dinner dress.

I cowered in the train, one uncertain hand drawn up.

Beginning on February 21, daily German bombardments pulverized the battle zone as French troops cowered in trenches and dugouts, trying to make themselves as small as possible, praying not to be blown to bits or buried alive.

Simpson cowered in the back of one, a handgun to his temple, as patrol cars followed it for about two hours in the California twilight.