Sample Sentences for
cower
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    "Yeh can' take Dumbledore!" yelled Hagrid, making Fang the boarhound cower and whimper in his basket.  (source)
    cower = show fear
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    He didn't particularly enjoy getting roughed up, but the alternative was to cower and beg, which he couldn't lower himself to do.  (source)
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    We must all be alike. ... Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.  (source)
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    A few steps in, I remember I'm supposed to look like I'm cowering, so I slow my pace and hug the wall, keeping my head down.  (source)
    cowering = showing fear
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    Uncle Andrew cowered away from her.  (source)
    cowered = showed fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
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    Every petty tyrant-to-be would like to have the boy, to set him in front of an army and watch the world either flock to join or cower in fear.  (source)
    cower = show fear
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    It cowers and turns around then scurries off toward the voice.†  (source)
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    See how Sir Tristram hunteth, and hawketh, and cowereth within a castle with his lady, and forsaketh your worship.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She cowereth" in older English, today we say "She cowers."
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    To look at him was like reading a relic typeface, like the first letter-block of a book, maybe the letter Y, his frame bent a little sideways as though a mule had fought one arm, the wide shoulders set back, curiously askance, a physical assemblage that belied his uncowering nature.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncowering means not and reverses the meaning of cowering. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Suddenly Lennie let go his hold. He crouched cowering against the wall.  (source)
    cowering = showing fear
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    The boy cowered, covered his face.  (source)
    cowered = showed fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
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    She's the righteous one now I can feel myself start to shrink, to cower.†  (source)
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    She's screaming at him, and this big bull of a guy cowers back, so she jumps at me.†  (source)
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