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

I would cower in my room or the hallway, shoveling Froot Loops into my mouth until the apartment was no longer an office but our home again.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024

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

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

He sought to walk towards the blizzard of criticism - an unlikely alliance taking in Ford and the National Trust among many others - rather than cower from it.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2023

No humans had trespassed into his forest, forcing him to cower or sneak.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

"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

Alison King, an artist in her mid-30s, cowers under a wet blanket on her bathroom floor as a “blazing fury” descends on Lake Bend, a fictional small town outside Melbourne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Soldiers then approach a man identified by B’Tselem as 36-year-old Thaar Shahin as he cowers underneath the hood of a car.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

Only when he realizes that George is telling the truth does he reach out with gentleness, but George still cowers away.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2021

He cowers, not knowing what she will do.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

“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

Lincoln’s time was one of passionate intensity, of loud voices and closed minds, of demagogues who exploited public opinion and conflict-averse officeholders who cowered in fear of it.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022

As he cowered in the grass, a young woman in a red dress appeared, only her upper body visible.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

As soon as the rover toppled, I curled into a ball and cowered.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Several of Seifert's sixes were struck with such force that spectators in the second tier were cowering for safety, though it felt cruel that Allen's spectacular boundary effort went in the book as a drop.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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

Our last glimpse of Dedra shows her shoeless and cowering in a prison cell, destined to be as forgotten as her boss and every other underling who fails the Emperor.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

A swashbuckling adventurer wearing armor and a winged helmet stood with a glowing blue sword raised over his head, preparing to strike a troll cowering before him.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline