fearfully

Example Sentences

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Railing about powerlessness is a luxury we might want to save for the moment—should it ever fearfully arrive—in which we have truly got no power left to assert.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

"Are you from ICE?" one of the women, a farm worker in a hat and purple bandana, asks us fearfully.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2025

And those people tend to be, on average, more content and happier than ever being fearfully enclosed, always worrying about the next thing.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2024

Videos shared on social media of the immediate aftermath of the quake, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed people fearfully running out of a shopping centre, restaurants and apartment buildings and congregating outside.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2023

Inside, sick and emaciated women—the first women Jack had seen in three years—watched fearfully from the shadows as the boys entered the camp.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren