Below you will find example sentences with "too afraid". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Too Afraid in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: afraid
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 22.6 words

Words in this phrase

too afraid

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • too can mean: Likewise. Common word
  • afraid can mean: Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

but was too afraid to look 1× he s too afraid to debate 1× he was too afraid to leave 1× i was too afraid of the 1× it are too afraid to act 1× jacob feeling too afraid to make 1× media is too afraid to even 1× not being too afraid to say 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a fraudster 33 1× a young woman 1× but they know 1× consent is not 1× countries such as 1× how many times 1×

Common sentence endings:

afraid to act 1× afraid to debate 1× afraid to have 1× anti fracking protest 1× biden would find 1× had the flu 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

people 4× tell 3× outcome 2× conversation 2× times 2× tikka 2× debate 2× feeling 2× seen 2× jeffries 1× key 1× sure 1×

Related phrases

far too too little too big too long too early too expensive isn afraid little too too far too late

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around afraid:

isn afraid 10×

Just before it in the phrase index:

tony stark tony khan tony blair tony award tonight show tonight game

Just after it in the phrase index:

too big too busy too complicated too early too expensive too far

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

too little too big too long too early too expensive too far

Same ending:

isn afraid

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "too afraid" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 22.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as but was too afraid to look, he s too afraid to debate, people, tell and outcome stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with far too, too little, too big and isn afraid, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with too afraid

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Trump is too afraid to debate. (6 words)

Consent is not being too afraid to say no. (9 words)

He was then ‘too afraid’ to tell the Department of Social Protection. (12 words)

Longer example sentences

Too afraid to publicly admit that my levels of spice basically range from korma up to tikka, he recommends I go for a mixture of saag aloo and chicken tikka with paprika Biryani rice (£9 including a drink). (38 words)

I was living with my dad and I was still too afraid to tell him that I was pregnant and so I had to keep saying that I wasn’t feeling well and that I had the flu. (38 words)

Countries such as Germany and Denmark have not seen a new surge in cases since they started to lift the lockdown, but retail experts in Britain fear that people will still be too afraid to resume shopping. (37 words)

Question examples

How many times has it been that the doors have opened but we’ve been too afraid to walk on through? (21 words)

Example sentences (20)

Mr Jeffries said a key outcome was to 'make sure that what we got in the room was people to not to be too afraid to have the conversation that they're too afraid to have'.

But they know it’s not normal, but they’re too afraid of what a real investigation into Hunter, and therefore Joe Biden, would find.

He said he heard more gunshots but was too afraid to look back.

He’s been indicted 91 times and is unfit for public office, but his hard-right supporters, including many Congressional Republicans, are too afraid of his influence to speak up.

He was then ‘too afraid’ to tell the Department of Social Protection.

However, she was too afraid to tell him that she was vegan.

How many times has it been that the doors have opened but we’ve been too afraid to walk on through?

It’s a dark truth about childhood that most media is too afraid to even acknowledge.

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Too afraid to publicly admit that my levels of spice basically range from korma up to tikka, he recommends I go for a mixture of saag aloo and chicken tikka with paprika Biryani rice (£9 including a drink).

Trump is too afraid to debate.

A young woman glassed in a pub is too afraid to go out a year later – because her attacker is still walking free.

I was living with my dad and I was still too afraid to tell him that I was pregnant and so I had to keep saying that I wasn’t feeling well and that I had the flu.

I was too afraid of the outcome of that particular conversation to follow through with my planned bravado.

Now with people too afraid to even be seen on the street, the initiative is essentially defunct.

On Thursday night, Trump made it official: He’s too afraid to debate Harris.

Released on Wednesday, January 17, the '80-style promo sees Jacob feeling too afraid to make his way down the staircase of the main "SNL" backdrop.

These are benefits that people in other parts of the country already enjoy, but we don’t, because those with the power to fix it are too afraid to act.

A fraudster, 33, who pocketed £9,000 after claiming he was too afraid to leave his house has been caught on camera scaling a lorry during an anti-fracking protest.

Consent is not being too afraid to say no.

Countries such as Germany and Denmark have not seen a new surge in cases since they started to lift the lockdown, but retail experts in Britain fear that people will still be too afraid to resume shopping.

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