chicken out
Example Sentences
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Talking to the only other couple who managed not to chicken out like we did, I’ll never forget the looks on their faces when they learned we’d left in the midnight hour.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
Murdaugh testified that he saw them around the same time he took a chicken out of the mouth of one of their dogs, Bubba, who had been chasing the chicken on their property.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
And now Chelsi Stone is glad she didn’t chicken out.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
I didn’t just chicken out of it, so I am definitely proud of that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2022
You never know when you might chicken out in the lunchroom.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
