Example sentences for: cowardice

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

  • Any other way (by telephone, by note) smacks of cowardice.

  • are risk-hungry risk-takers [who] see every risk as a challenge, and believe that failure to meet any challenge is cowardice," he wrote.

  • A retired CIA official and Army officer, Sorley posits a new theory on the Vietnam War: The United States won, but the military victory was immediately undercut by diplomatic backtracking and congressional cowardice.

  • Mocking Bush's plea that he didn't "know a governmental law that will put love in people's hearts," Handgun Control Chairwoman Sarah Brady blasted "the cowardice of elected officials who blame everything for the carnage--except for the guns."

  • Albright's U.N. tenure is best remembered for two things: her sandbagging of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and her proclamation that Cuba's shooting down of planes flown by anti-Castro exiles took "not cojones " but "cowardice."


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