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Example sentences for: afraid

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He was about two weeks short of being old enough to fly, but still afraid of people and very difficult to catch so that we could continue feeding until he was self-sufficient.
So try as I might to interest friends and family in Charter revision, I'm afraid budgets, bureaucratic reorganization, and mayoral succession just can't compete with larger-than-life egotistic personalities, the war of the righteous, and raunchy art.
"I am not afraid," he repeated over and over in his announcement speech last fall.
The paper is probably afraid of launching napalm-filled lorries from the front page.
As Scott Shuger wrote, it was a "heart-wrenching story about a 9-year-old boy who concealed the accidental death of his mother for a month, leaving her body in their home because he was afraid of being sent to an orphanage, the Post goes with the bad taste headline of the year, century and millennium: "Mother Died, but Boy, 9, Kept Mum."