Example sentences for: fear

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

  • And this is why, when Faludi uses the word "emasculation," what I think she is evoking is a fear of diminished potency which is more economic than sexual.

  • Donald Dossey, a North Carolina behavioral scientist, has coined a term for it: "paraskevidekatriaphobia," which he derived from the Greek for fear of Friday the 13 th . He estimates that between 17 million and 21 million Americans suffer mild to severe anxiety or change their activities--performing rituals before leaving the house, calling in sick to work, or postponing flights or major purchases--and that businesses lose $750 million in revenues because of these fears.

  • Public interest and government sector employers fear that these barriers will turn too many young attorneys away from the battleground of equal justice and their departure will place the American justice system in crisis.

  • Book -- Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America , by Elliott Abrams;

  • Many enlightened people consider this to be a great improvement over a society in which sex generated not only emotion and power, but fear.


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