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Example sentences for: afraid

How can you use “afraid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"We need not have to be afraid of wars," he said.
(This is who our guy wants to become but is desperately afraid of becoming.)
But the hard style of the narrator, far from being an expression of passivity, is, in fact, a symptom of a man who is trying to avoid having things done to him--someone afraid to let go of himself, afraid to merge.
As a proud resident of a Manhattan neighborhood that I pray will always be called the Upper West Side and as a Times reader who has never deigned to look at "Circuits," I'm afraid that I don't have much to add to your clever insights from the F train.
Mom's afraid that her friend will encourage her to go along with the divorce--which she doesn't want to do.