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Example sentences for: afraid

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From: virginia@bloomsbury.net To: dharmabum@nirvana.net Cc: bloomsburygroup@bloomsbury.net; listerv@deadauthorsguild.org Re: Who's afraid of V W?
The fiction editor quit, claiming the editor in chief had been afraid that Leavitt's explicit gay sex scenes would alienate advertisers.
Afraid to leave the project, to cross into another
Woma, woma [afraid]!
There are three other long histories: An appreciation of Sinatra as the "greatest interpretive musician" of the century, yet another piece on former New Yorker editor William Shawn (the gist--he was too careful and too afraid to ever really live), and a long recounting of the Jeffrey ( Fatal Vision ) MacDonald murders.