Words similar to afraid

Example sentences for: afraid

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

We could go on all day, each jockeying to out-brow the other, high and low, which would be enormously fun for us but boring, I'm afraid, for our readers.
For a day or two I was almost afraid to speak at all, until I narrowed down to the words mentioned above.
Woma, woma [afraid]!
McCain's speech was a version of the one he gave yesterday in New Hampshire, culminating in his refrain "I am not afraid."
A writer chronicles his own long bout with depression, a period when he couldn't eat and was afraid to stand up or shower.