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How to use the word Afraid in a Sentence? Page #2

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I absolutely support Sen. Sinema, she’s not afraid to take on hard things, and I’m gonna be supporting her too.

Lisa Murkowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My biggest message would be to all of the young adults and children thinking about doing this, who are afraid to do it, especially if you have limitations, just jump in and do it, it’s a big world and there’s a lot to see. You wo n’t regret it.

Renee Bruns Bruns

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are all excited for this town hall meeting, and it is just a slap in the face because the people who put us out are too afraid to show up to the meeting.

Nate Velez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many in Moscow are really afraid of Prigozhin, they understand that he commands a huge gang – an organized criminal group of mercenaries and killers – who at any moment can arrange the god knows what in Moscow.

Vladimir Osechkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My mother was afraid (for) me to play football because she sees me as an amputee. She thought that if I fell on the floor, I would have another problem, but SLASA (has) taken me to Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania.

Goalkeeper Ali Badara Kamara

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Communities won’t travel to police stations to open cases because they are afraid.

Tumelo Mogodiseng

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Man. I've done a little bit of everything, i've never been afraid to try new things… I've learned things that I've been able to apply and not only in my business but in my everyday life.

Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am not afraid of anyone except the Almighty. Because it is important for me that by my action I can set an example for my compatriots, fellow security officials, enforcers.

Maria Dmitrieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was afraid he will be executed in the same manner as Yevgeny Nuzhin – with a sledgehammer. We, as human-rights defenders, decided to help him and protect his life. we are not trying to justify his actions in relation to his participation in Wagner Group. But it should be understood that he decided to flee Wagner Group as terrorist organization which kills both Russians and Ukrainians.

Vladimir Osechkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re usually afraid to describe new species based on only a single one, because there’s a chance that there might be some sort of variation, once we had those two specimens, we were fairly sure they were a new species.

Omar Entiauspe-Neto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People across this city have not been this afraid since the crime spikes in the 90s. Not only has the Mayor not delivered, but she has no plan, i, on the other hand, have a planand the track record to back it up. I was instrumental in banning ghost guns in Illinois, making us the first state in the Midwest to do so.

Kambium Buckner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Why won't God give me all of his power? Because he's afraid I'll do good with it.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
1 year ago

They’ve ignored the moms who couldn’t get formula for their babies, workers who can’t afford to fill up their gas tanks, or families who are afraid to allow their children to play in the front yard. And not only have they ignored those issues, but their extreme stance on abortion, allowing it up to the moment of birth, is also out of touch with most Americans.

Ashley Hayek

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The radical left continues to ignore Americans' real, everyday concerns, like skyrocketing inflation and rising crime, they’ve ignored the moms who couldn’t get formula for their babies, workers who can’t afford to fill up their gas tanks, or families who are afraid to allow their children to play in the front yard. And not only have they ignored those issues, but their extreme stance on abortion, allowing it up to the moment of birth, is also out of touch with most Americans.

Ashley Hayek

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Well, he’s doing it to lower gas prices because he’s afraid of the impact. And unfortunately what’s happened now is our strategic reserve is at its lowest level, I believe since 1982 or ’83, we have a strategic reserve for war, for in case of drastic emergency. It doesn’t exist to bail out the president’s party in an election year.

Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’m not afraid of anything, and certainly not the NRA, and let me be clear, the NRA does not represent the overwhelming majority of what gun owners really believe and want.

John Fetterman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People are afraid of having their livelihoods threatened in a place where there is no other economy.

Larissa Baldwin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's easy to look in from the outside and say that Traditional Owners on the Pilbara are' pro-mining,' but it's a volatile place to speak your truth about what's taking place on country, people are afraid of having their livelihoods threatened in a place where there is no other economy.

Larissa Baldwin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is clear that The Iranian government is afraid of The Iranian government own people, mahsa Amini is senselessly, tragically dead, and now The Iranian government is violently suppressing peaceful protesters rightly angry about Mahsa Amini loss.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Don’t be afraid to cut people out of your life if they are causing you pain

Jason la-barke

added by Josephsmeez6372
1 year ago

The reason they're afraid of me is they can't control me…. I scare them.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

She is afraid to go in any bank or any type of business. She had some events in her life from living back in Alabama as a young girl where she's been discriminated against, and you know it's heavy on her heart.

Yolanda McGee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I talked to my son and daughter, and Zayon Martinez said that they were afraid that if The Uvalde school district happened again, they weren't going to be protected, there's no fencing at the junior high where my daughter would be going. There's no way that I'm gon na convince her to go when there's no fencing.

Zayon Martinez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The British pound's just one blow after the other, i'm afraid I can't find any good news.

Martin McTague

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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