cower

After 36 hours in our care, Bob still had not peed, pooped, eaten, or done much of anything beyond cower.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

“This is a story of happiness,” Gibson insists at one point, refusing to cower to cancer.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025

Resident Andrew Sordyll says he often hears the "constant revving of loud, high-performance engines" over the TV at night that makes his dog "cower".

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024

Ten 6-week-old piglets cower together in the corner of a gated pen spread with straw.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

“Yeh can’ take Dumbledore!” yelled Hagrid, making Fang the boarhound cower and whimper in his basket.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

When he pops “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” under the spotlight, a volunteer cowers in the chair while Garry leaps over it with impressive dexterity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

That’s not the culture of an organization that, even in its darkest times, cowers to no one and challenges everyone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2025

"He doesn't want to go for a walk when he has a muzzle on, he shivers and cowers down, it's horrible to see, but once he's up here he's like a new puppy again."

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2024

She cowers in tiny, dark places at every bang.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

Another crack of thunder, and Boomer leaps out of bed and cowers by the door.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

More than 30 dogs were crowded together on the stairs, while others climbed on the kitchen sides or cowered in corners.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Others might have cowered or taken time to regroup and figure out what they should do,” said Wald.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

He briefly cowered, before realizing it was a taped-up black cricket ball that soared up from the ground floor.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022

During Hurricane Charley, he cowered with his landlord’s Rottweiler, Chopper, in the back of a junkyard pickup.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

What really happened is that Tom had to half carry me out of the house, me crying and shouting all the way, while poor Clara cowered in the kitchen.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

The distance between Americans and the people in other countries cowering as death rains down on them from the sky has always been vast both geographically and culturally.

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026

For Ms. Sweeney and Ms. Seyfried it provides an endless variety of opportunities to run through the soap-opera playbook of screaming, cowering, deceiving and attacking depending on the circumstances, which grow increasingly horrifying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

On Friday, Musk shared two side-by-side A.I.-generated images of graffiti-style stencils: a smiling, handsome Kirk, and a cowering, dying Zarutska.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025

“It would be a mistake to think California is cowering in the face of this onslaught,” Newsom said in the 2,300-word address accompanied by a shortened video version.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

She didn’t say this as she might have before, with cowering and shrinking.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi