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Example sentences for: afraid

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The fiction editor quit, claiming the editor in chief had been afraid that Leavitt's explicit gay sex scenes would alienate advertisers.
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.
He is afraid of a Ceausescu scenario."
And indeed, I'm afraid I do think most cops in New York ticketing the double-parked car of a courteous black man carrying cats would speak exactly the way my cop spoke to me on Court Street in Brooklyn.
Who's Afraid of Amazon.com?