Fear means A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like emotion or regret.
Fear in a sentence
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Fear meaning
- A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
Example sentences (20)
It was in this context that he made the bold assertion that the only thing the nation had to fear was fear itself.
After all, isn’t racism built on a kind of fear and isn’t it that fear which provokes all sorts of irrational actions?
Trump cannot abide documentation for fear of disclosure, and cannot abide disclosure for fear of disparagement.
I’ve got an irrational fear of stretching myself and fear that I will injure myself with anything bigger than a tampon.
They lived in fear of getting sick even before the virus, because they also lived in fear of being discovered.
I came to hope that a book which explained the roots of the fear of witchcraft might play a part in eradicating that fear.
That would be fear and self-preservation, and the Chinese Communist Party, at its core, is driven by a fear of losing power.
Almost every girl goes through her teens with that fear, a fear that gets passed on quietly from one generation to the next.
Sometimes fear of the unknown — or fear of an abnormal result — causes people to put off scheduling an appointment altogether.
Meanwhile, the crypto fear and greed index continues to be in the fear zone with a score of 39/100, a point up since yesterday.
Messages from teachers that focus on failure are known as “fear appeals”: they can create a strong fear of failure in students.
A PF Mayor can never remove these people for fear of reprimand from the PF SG for fear of losing votes.
If you fear investment, use your fear of loss as a motivation to learn how to win and minimize losses.
But I fear reaching out and causing pain, while I also fear an unexpected meeting in a social setting.
It's not the fear that we're missing out, it's the fear that someone else thinks we're missing out.
The fear response to noise from fireworks can have an adverse impact on animals and can lead to stress, fear or even phobia responses.
Many don’t report these scams to authorities for fear of retaliation or fear of being deported.
The CNN Money Fear and Greed index showed some increase in the fear level among U.S. investors.
This cosplay by really shows the serenity that this belief brings Pain, who clearly doesn’t fear anything because he doesn’t fear pain.
They are a Christian organization, and some fear that they may be too evangelical, while others fear they may not be evangelical enough.
Common combinations with fear
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- fear of 131×
- the fear 44×
- fear and 27×
- of fear 23×
- fear that 19×
- for fear 17×
- fear the 16×
- to fear 12×
- in fear 11×
- and fear 10×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word fear. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.