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
Even Peru's rightists, who for a quarter century had hated Haya de la Torre with a bitterness peculiar to Peru, had seldom accused him of lacking courage.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And I knew that Abner rode into something that little men, lacking courage, would gladly have stayed out of.
From The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Louderback, Walt
