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How to use quailing in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word quailing? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
And she held her advantage comfortably until, serving for the set at 5-4, herself quailing before the abyss.
His little son had gone through that chaotic, uncontrollable situation all on his own, never once quailing under the immense pressure it imposed on a five-year-old.
I remember quailing in horror at the American charts in those days.
What, I wonder, quailing slightly before the catalogue of conspiracy, would Jefferson and the Founding Fathers have said about Bush and the neocons?
Lastly, to put things in perspective: Europe may be quailing at the numbers trying to get in, but it is as nothing compared to the numbers that Syria's neighbours have been dealing with.
Beans feed the majority of the population in Latin America and much of Africa, but the hearty legumes might be quailing in the face of climate change.
To pass the quailing and withering of all things by the recess, and their reviving by the reaccess of the sun, the sap in trees precisely follows the motion of the sun.
Examples from Classical Literature
They were both fixed on the beast, but there was no sign of the beast's quailing.
How would it not grieve him could he hear of them as now quailing before Hector?
And instead of quailing, she looked at him with flashing eyes.
The quailing Leaf tried to look as if he had lived nowhere at all.
Clearly she had no intention of quailing before the majesty of the law.
Not once, so far as the boys could see, did he show a sign of quailing.
Lady Luce caught her by the shoulders and glared into her quailing eyes.
Near a minute these two bold and untamed spirits stood regarding one another steadily in the eye, neither quailing in the least before the fierce gaze he encountered.
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