feared
Example Sentences
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Landry said people there won’t be asked to leave their land, but some locals, before the announcement, feared for their homes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
But those objections weren’t enough, and “we all feared that the Planning Department was on the verge of possibly approving the process ministerially.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Nadezhdin has since left Russia, saying he feared jail time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
But in Australia, when he got out driving Scott Boland in Perth or swinging at Mitchell Starc in Brisbane, I feared he could waste what he has worked so hard to have.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
If anything was more feared than an Eye, it was the Eye’s weapon—the source of the knight’s power, cursed to destroy anyone who touched it other than the knight himself.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
