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Cower meaning
To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear. | To crouch in general. | To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.
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Example sentences (20)
At Harvard, by contrast, such controversies rage on, because administrators and professors cower to students, particularly on racial and sexual issues.
His force was irresistible now, and the big man would have no choice but to cower and whimper and submit to whatever Justin chose to visit upon him.
Instead of taking action, our leaders cower in fear of the NRA and the radical gun lovers who are so insecure and fearful that they cannot leave their house unless they are armed.
The new figures “paint a bloody picture of violence tearing away at our social fabric while our citizens cower in fear in their own homes”, the party said in a statement.
When players start a combat inside the Elfsong Tavern, all the patrons will now cower instead of continuing to drink.
He didn't cower or pull out his phone to film when Jordan Neely started threatening… pic.
Mr Monokoane has described the investigation as a ploy by his detractors to constrict and cower him from voicing his discontent with several issues within the RFP and from criticising the party’s leadership.
This session is especially painful as our hyper conservative lawmakers seem to cower in fear of everything from transgender kids and equal opportunity to library books and women having control over their own bodies.
At least two people are shielding their children from the earthquake as they cower on the floor and behind a sofa.
Determined not to cower before the white establishment, the three soon find themselves targeted by a shadowy cult, in a gripping and eerie story that makes the recent past look as sinister as any haunted house.
If it goes up they cower in their bunkers from the criticism.
Joe Giudice is an indefatigable personality who does not cower in the face of trouble.
May they cower in fear.
Now, it’s time for Australia to work out its own way to live with this thing, not cower from it.
Parlade is proof that a man with a most decorated chest and a thousand guns will still cower at the sight of a woman who has found a cause for her voice.
Somewhere in the room you hear the buzz of a mosquito, but you’re too tired to get up and deal with it, so you cower beneath the sheet in the hope that the thin membrane of fabric will protect you from the inevitable bloodsucking.
But increasingly I wonder, as I look at the construction sites that make her cower, whether Lucky is onto something.
Flash the black card, and most white people will cower.
Here you will not cower in fear.
He said of the Chinese, “I don’t think they would cower or immediately run to the negotiating table to throw themselves at the mercy of Donald Trump.