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How to use cowering in a sentence

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Jake was cowering under the bridge, shivering, and panting, but trying to keep his cool and not blow his cover.
He assaulted nurses who tried to calm and restrain him and left other workers cowering as he ranted at them.
Phoenix screamed at her parents, who were now cowering in fear at their daughter standing before them.
There's not a single woman cowering under pointless blows, not a single housewife, waitress, charlady or nun being needlessly punched or nutted.
Except when you find the foxhole and the dogs go in, there's not a fox, but a weasel cowering in the corner of the hole.
The audience, which was either cowering in terror or singing along already, also trancedly stood silent.
So brave, he was afraid of nothing, and yet, here he was, cowering with fear.
The features tell us if that person is a threat, if they are sexually propositioning us, cowering before us or merely sleeping.
It may well be true that capturing him doesn't make America any safer than if he'd been left cowering in his spider hole for the next 50 years.
She was now cowering in fear as it began to charge at her with all of its strength.
I reckon I am one of very few people who can say that they saw the new year in whilst cowering in a bus shelter.
Maybe the rest of the city is quivering in terror, cowering at home, hiding with unconquerable fear?
The BBC did use new footage briefly, which showed the camerawoman cowering in a cafe as debris rained down outside.
Many residents were either cowering in their basements or had fled to the relative safety of outlying districts.
We stood in the rain, cowering beneath our ponchos, eating summer sausage straight out of the packaging.
The exhibition included predictable scenes of patients cowering pitifully in gloomy, overcrowded asylums.
The courtier sat in the corner cowering in fear as a hooded figure with an axe stepped closer.
How could a town live between those huge monstrous creatures without cowering in fear?
There is much admiring of young legal eagles, studying of wizened magistrates and cowering from unrepentant defendants to be done.
If I hadn't met him, I'd probably still be cowering in a corner somewhere, refusing to say boo to a goose.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Helen had joined her mother and Ito, and the three stood cowering on the threshold.
Clinton's paroxysm was over, and sinking to the floor he lay there shivering and cowering.
And are ye in the wont of drawing up wi' a' the gangrel bodies that ye find cowering in a sand-bunker upon the links?
I grasped the haft of my knife, and like a tiger stood cowering on the spring.
They would be cowering there, probably in darkness, not knowing what was going on.
He was gesticulating wildly, and Rathburn could see that the girl was cowering.
Shouting on the foe he fell, And like thunder rang his war-cry O'er the cowering infidel.
The candle was relit, and there was our wretched captive, shivering and cowering in the grasp of the detective.
Mrs. collum fixed her eyes on Leander, as he sat cowering on her right.
The woman, cowering against the door, covered her ears, and groaned.
Instead, terror, stark, paralyzing terror, was mirrored in her eyes, in the expression of her mouth, in the tense, cowering attitude of her body.
Mowgli thrust his dead branch into the fire till the twigs lit and crackled, and whirled it above his head among the cowering wolves.
Then, though as lightly as a sunbeam on a cloud, she placed her foot upon the cowering form, and extended her hand to meet that of the Governor.
On the present occasion it was the ridiculous spectacle of Nutty cowering beneath the bedclothes that caused her wrath to evaporate.
It did not try to get away, but crouched down, quivering and cowering, and was in such a pitiable state of terror that I tried, though without effect, to comfort it.
You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.
After months of cowering under Colleens reign, a sweet girl named Michelle refused to give Colleen a silver bracelet she had gotten for her birthday.
She saw the abject manikin before her cowering, silent, in his chair.
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