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Example sentences for: scared

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But they are too scared of losing their video lottery funds to endorse the ballot initiatives.
They were rightly scared of Klebold and Harris: "They're really really creepy."
"They're scared stiff of Bill Clinton," said Shields of the Republicans.
In London, the Daily Telegraph reported a survey showing that children in Britain watched more television than anywhere else in Europe, mainly because their parents were scared of letting them out of doors.
"The Great Equivocator" bashes CIA Director-nominee Anthony Lake as too wishy-washy to head the agency: He was soft toward the Soviets during the Cold War, he's soft toward the Chinese now, and he's scared of using force to achieve foreign-policy goals.