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How to use the word fearful in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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It was designed to make you hate these men and find them fearful.

– Nicholas Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wish that we had a set of data that would help us guide personal decision-making, because I’m still fearful of a pandemic that we don’t really know a ton about.

– Beth Blauer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Or( we saw) the police officer using Hertfordshire Police/AP status within the family courts to undermine her access to her own children. certainly if anyone’s a victim of a police officer, they’re going to be extremely fearful of coming forward.

– Even Wistrich

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You want your kids to be able to go and have that education and everything, but at the same time, you're fearful that they're not gon na make it out by the end of the day.

– Brett Cross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Getting to a point where you completely trust your Inner Voice takes time and practice. First, you must eliminate or reject negative and fearful thoughts.

– Ana Parra Vivas

added by ana_2
1 year ago

I was very fearful of sex, there was no discussion of pleasure. It was only have babies and fear, because you didn't want to get pregnant and didn't want to contract an STD or an STI.

– Alexa Hulse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It helps veterans because it’s entirely based on trust, a lot of veterans come at [equine therapy] from a distrustful place, and you’re never going to fool a horse. Whether you’re feeling anxious or fearful, they’re going to know.

– Maddie Feaster

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Companies are more fearful than retail investors because retailers are making profits by selling more shares than companies in the last 2 months and so companies have sponsored business news channels anchors who advise these days retail investors not to fear and sell their shares so frenzily. Retail investors are further ready to offload their shares on Monday as they know Market is on bearish mood and char shows steep downward trend.

– Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
1 year ago

Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough.

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

Of course not every patient will [ display ] the same set of symptoms. Situational context may also play a role in aggression -- whether a patient feels fearful of places or people they do not recognize.

– Jason Frizzell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You may not think you're smart enough, but God does, you may be fearful of walking into a new situation. But God has not given us a spirit of fear. He has given us a spirit of power, love and self-control.

– Charley Jauss

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was very fearful because it was sent to not only me, but other households as well. I was worried it would be used as some sort of propaganda video with my daughter being front and center and not understanding what she's saying, in the video, without the blurred faces, you can see my daughter was uncomfortable. She might not understand the context, but she knows this isn't something nice to say.

– Christina Webb McFadden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I am fearful … of them trying to do to us what they did to those involved in January 6. It is our belief that they will try to do that….That means at this time, meaning today, tomorrow, we are not and will not go into DC proper.

– Brian Brase

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I received a frantic message from one of [her] caretakers at the orphanage saying that there were bombs going off and they were fearful for their lives, it was beyond scary and you feel helpless. Trying to aid children from a continent away is challenging.

– Said Thompson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm really glad, though, that little girl is OK, i can't even imagine what this poor child has gone through. She's never going to forget hiding and being fearful. That will never leave her.

– Marjorie Block

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I ’m fearful for my family just to go out of the house, felony arrests are up.

– Senior Officer Douglas Griffith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Nothing is more important than the rule of law in Hong Kong. And journalists and media organizations like all of us have to respect and comply with the law, if they are fearful of not being able to comply with the law, then they have to make up their mind and take the necessary decisions.

– Carrie Lam

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The humble are those who are concerned not simply with the past but also with the future, since they know how to look ahead, to spread their branches, remembering the past with gratitude, the proud, on the other hand, simply repeat, grow rigid and enclose themselves in that repetition, feeling certain about what they know and fearful of anything new because they cannot control it.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’m very fearful that going into 2022, when the Court does rule – I think they will gut Roe in some way – we won’t have a nationwide debate about abortion, we’ll have a 50-state debate about abortion.

– Amanda Carpenter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are likely to see some hit to economic activity just as rising case numbers make consumers more fearful and governments require more stringent Covid pass [ screening ] for various activities.

– Jessica Hinds

Found on CNN
2 years ago

North Texas's very sad, the situation that we're in right now, the world is changing. The city is changing. And unfortunately you have a set of people in this town that are fearful of the change. And what do the fearful do ? Instill fear.

– Russell Maryland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Much of National Institutes of Health is this disinformation that is so widely spread on the internet, and which has, I think, caused a lot of people to be confused or fearful about what the vaccinations might do to them, and that is truly heartbreaking when we see, still, more than a thousand people losing their lives to this disease( daily), almost all of them unvaccinated, and therefore didn't have to happen.

– Francis Collins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Christians, of all people, are supposed to be particularly worried about their neighbors, if you are a Christian, or if you're anybody who has not yet gotten vaccinated, hit the reset button on whatever information you have that's causing you to be doubtful or hesitant or fearful, and look at the evidence.

– Francis Collins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He repeatedly touched me inappropriately, said vile and disgusting things to me, stalked me, and made me feel violated and fearful.

– Trashelle Odom

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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