Example sentences for: cowardice

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

  • But the only way to combine piety, cowardice, cynicism, and recklessness is to hit him from both sides.

  • In Stanley Kubrick's 1957 Paths of Glory , when those French soldiers failed to go over the top and take the anthill, the general staff arbitrarily picked three poor, dumb bastards to be tried and executed for cowardice.

  • 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.

  • You can fault his cowardice and cynicism from an idealistic standpoint.

  • In a review of Glazer's latest book, We Are All Multiculturalists Now , in the Weekly Standard , Dinesh D'Souza accuses the author of "cowardice," of mollycoddling the multicultural left in order to make life in Cambridge tolerable.


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