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
“It’s really important when our country is going to crap, and maybe if it starts lightning right now, I might chicken out and run away,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2022
And now Chelsi Stone is glad she didn’t chicken out.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2022
Whenever I forget to take the chicken out of the freezer, she lectures me—and then proceeds to prosecute me for forgetting to turn in my language arts essay.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
