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Example sentences for: afraid

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For example, the new books say that it was Israel, not the Arab states, which held the military advantage in the 1948 war for independence, and that Palestinians left their land not because they smugly assumed Israel would lose the war but because they were afraid or forced out by Israeli soldiers.
It came to me while watching a pretty young woman in a San Francisco cybercafe who seemed to have a wonderful, funny, flirtatious personality online (I was in a position to read some of what she was typing) but who logged off and buttoned up her coat without looking left or right and hurried into the street as if afraid that someone might actually speak to her.
(I'm afraid I've taken too much Latin for any sane person.)
Evangelicals may not want their children to study sex ed in school, but they are not afraid of studying a little sex ed in their bedrooms.
They are afraid of the Mind, and to read.