Words similar to feared

Example sentences for: feared

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

They feared it could fatally damage the authority of the United Nations and lead to a resumption of the Cold War, while benefiting Saddam Hussein and weakening NATO by setting Greece and Turkey against each other.
While acknowledging Hussein's misdeeds--attacking Israel in 1967, hosting Palestinian terrorists over the years, and siding with Iraq in the Persian Gulf War--editorialists lavished excuses on him: He feared a Palestinian revolt if he didn't attack Israel in 1967, atoned for the 1967 war by sitting out the 1973 war against Israel, and allied himself with Iraq in 1991 because he feared an Iraqi invasion or collateral economic damage from the war against Iraq.
Precisely as white racists feared, desegregation encouraged interracial unions.
He says he preferred Berlin, but that he and Atta knew too many people in Germany and feared being spotted together.
For the Italian press Friday, Kosovo developments paled in significance beside a feared revival of home-grown terrorism.