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How to use cowered in a sentence

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Ashley screamed with a look so threatening that the devil himself would have cowered in fear.
Many people cowered from criticising him, not least because of his readiness to confront his critics in the libel courts.
It was difficult for his cowered staff to stand up to this overbearing behaviour.
Unfortunately, he may have cowered away by developing a plot line that, while entertaining and engaging, is largely unoriginal and derivative.
He cowered in a hedge fearing she would return to run him over, the Feilding High Court was told.
When it hissed, the very heavens shook, and when it growled, the earth cowered in fear.
He stepped closer as she cowered in fear and a beam of moonlight illuminated his face.
She tried to be strong, to draw courage unto herself, but it failed her and she cowered in fear.
John cowered in the corner of the Golden Goose waiting room, keeping the potted palm between him and the overbright entrance.
He said the blows, kicks and punches continued even when he cowered on the floor with his hands protecting his head.
In response, the girl just cowered away from him, crawling backwards on her hands and knees.
In a bed nearby, a little boy cowered, listening to the thunder of shellfire.
He was beaten to the floor, where he cowered and tried to protect himself from the shower of blows.
Near Freder, upon the illuminated mosaic floor, cowered the little drink-mixer, sobbing uncontrolledly.
She cowered in a dark corner crying for the rest of the night, the scary sight still haunting her nervous mind.
They cowered in the corridors of Parliament House when a hireling of John Wren whispered what might happen to them if they did not toe the line.
As the players and umpires cowered on the floor of their vehicles for 20 minutes while the bullets flew, several received shrapnel wounds.
While we've led the charge against the media barons, Labour has cowered before them for decades.
And then the horses cowered lower and lower, and moaned in terror as men do in pain.
All was in dead, grim silence only that the horses whinnied and cowered, as if in terror of the worst.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She cowered under the bedclothes, she told me, expecting him to strike her.
Sim cowered in a corner of the box, with his lank fingers in his long hair.
Jonas shrunk from looking at him, and cowered down into the chair by which he had held.
The quiet voice ripped abruptly into an explosiveness under which some of them cowered as under a lash.
In the night he had cowered before Hermione and had been cruel with himself.
She heard the grinding and whirring of a motor-car on its top gear approaching up the hill, and cowered away against the hedge.
Looking cautiously round, to ascertain that they were not overheard, the two hags cowered nearer to the fire, and chuckled heartily.
It was his first introduction to the dread summer berg of the Banks, and he cowered in the bottom of the boat while Manuel laughed.
Monty was sitting up when they reached the hut, but at the sight of Trent's companion he cowered back and affected sleepiness.
Char and I cowered in a quiet, sometimes apprehensive, and always compartmentalized way of living.
He threatened the wailer with his fist, and the black cowered down, glaring at him with sullen eyes.
If ever one cowered visibly in this world, Hamish Channing did then.
He glared at Nat Burns, who cowered silent and miserable in his corner.
His head bowed on his breast, and he giggled and cowered alternately.
Arthurs eyestalk cowered back into the suitcase as she came close.
The Count suddenly stopped, just as poor Lucy had done outside the tomb, and cowered back.
She cowered within the chair as one stricken with a vertigo.
The leader of the hostile party stood in the centre of the circle, while the route of monsters cowered around him, like evil spirits in the presence of a dread magician.
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