Cowered

I will not be cowered down like this.

The Magi discovered the Christ child and paid Him homage; Herod cowered in fear and plotted the destruction of all male first-born children in Bethlehem.

I cowered in my Philadelphia flat, blinds down, ears plugged.

In a separate case, father-of-three Stuart Randall, 55, who took a sledgehammer to cars at a garage belonging to a foreign national while the terrified owner cowered inside with his family, was jailed for three years.

Many Americans considered this treason, but Fonda has never been cowered by the opinions of others.

Mobile phone footage shows crowds hiding in stairwells, with other shoppers saying they were evacuated to the roof and others cowered in shops.

Cruz went in for a punch to start the match, but Avalon quickly cowered in the corner.

He was not meant to know where the children and their mother, Olga, were living, and stalked Jennifer home from Pennant Hills train station, before shooting the two teenagers as they cowered underneath Jack’s desk at their home in West Pennant Hills.

I think that’s part of why the song took so long to write — I kept reaching this stumbling block of sorrow, and I cowered away from that.

The GOP is a quivering, frightened gaggle of pols who have cowered to Trumpism for fear the loser-in-chief will tweet them to death.

Trump has repeatedly cowered to Vladimir Putin and this time says he wasn’t told even if that were remotely true, he knows now and still refuses to act on it.

It has cowered before a small but vocal minority of reactionary forces.

Mom cowered with Lola in a corner.

Moreover, the cat “was very frightened, and cowered in the corner of her crate,” she recalled.

Residents cowered in shopping centers and supermarkets as gunfire roared.

Shell-shocked from months of living in homelessness and fear, she cowered in a corner and barely spoke.

Inmates cowered behind doors through which urine and faeces were squirted.

Students cowered behind desks and hid in cupboards as the gunman launched his attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday.

U.S. forces launched airstrikes Friday to counter a major Taliban assault on an Afghan provincial capital, where terrified residents cowered in their homes amid explosions and gunfire as security forces try to beat the insurgents back.

On Good Friday Jews, have in times past, cowered behind locked doors with fear of a Christian mob seeking 'revenge' for deicide.