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Example sentences for: chickening

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Conservative commentators complain that the Republican governors are chickening out on the principle of returning authority to the states now that it's costing them money.
Chickening out, I visited the computer section of my local bookstore and grabbed a copy of the friendly yellow Linux for Dummies . But the cashier all but refused to sell it to me.
And just in case anyone in the press corps thought of accusing McCain of chickening out, he framed his evasion of Iowa as a sacrifice he had to endure for his principled opposition to ethanol subsidies.