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Example sentences for: afraid

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McCain's speech was a version of the one he gave yesterday in New Hampshire, culminating in his refrain "I am not afraid."
"Well, it looks like she's going to need some braces for da teef, I'm afraid."
I think what I like best about that is not the attention the writers pay to the details of Italian-American sociology, not the witty bullshitting sessions among the members of the crew, and not the way the plot lines mess with genre expectations, so that the worst thing that can happen to Anthony Soprano Jr. is not that he gets beaten up by a school bully but that he doesn't get beaten up, because that means he learns that his classmates' parents are afraid of his father.
Idiot Box: Be Afraid.
But even those who insist that the legal system is out of control are afraid to challenge it: Every time they have done so, Clinton and the Democrats have trounced them, depicting them (with some justice) as shills for big corporations that don't want to be accountable to employees and customers.