lacking courage
Example Sentences
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“I am in a cage, lacking courage, insignificant, flinching and escaping, just like this photo,” she wrote.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2019
Galatasaray coach Fatih Terim has accused ref Svein Oddvar Moen of "lacking courage" during his side's Big Cup defeat to Real Madrid.
From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2013
A tail, thin, amiable, blond young man. who, because he has never before reached the final in the Amateur, has been accused of lacking courage, Fischer leaned over his ball.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lawyer Wendell Willkie, who has never been accused of lacking courage, last week agreed to defend a well-known Communist, and for nothing.
From Time Magazine Archive
He therefore omitted to meet Washington on his first arrival, or to call upon him; but, lacking courage to avow the true reason, he pleaded indisposition.
From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Lossing, Benson John
