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Example sentences for "fears"

Lexicographically close words:
fearfulness; fearing; fearless; fearlessly; fearlessness; fearsome; feart; feasibility; feasible; feast
  1. At its ending, and in spite of her fears and tears, she was now borne away by him.

  2. It was clear enough that Angie's fears were not shared by Martin.

  3. By my fears you have No need to pray for 't.

  4. Quiet their fears and assure them of her safety.

  5. My fears have now a shape and short will show Their foulest face.

  6. There speaks my enemy, for in the court I shall find that will make these fears all plain.

  7. My liege, one who Would not be here but that he fears no death.

  8. Our fears for his safety however were in a considerable degree excited by the accounts we had received of these animals.

  9. Every Cree fears the medical or conjuring powers of his neighbour, but at the same time exalts his own attainments to the skies.

  10. Their fears however on this occasion were fortunately groundless.

  11. They form into herds of different sizes from ten to a hundred according as their fears or accident induce them to unite or separate.

  12. So he grinned, and kept his distance, like an animal that fears a trap.

  13. The public looked on, surprised and curious, drawn by the novelty of the idea and the amazing prices, but hesitating like an animal that fears a tempting bait.

  14. The croupy cough of a child plus the nervous fears of its mother did it.

  15. He recognized it at once for one of the smoke signals arranged by Benson to spread the news of a raid, and as he saw that it rose in direct line with the widow's rancho his fears crystallized around its slender column.

  16. Yet--all the fears of that long afternoon now concentrated in a cold horror.

  17. Now, a homeless man has no time to be superstitious, he fears the living and not the dead.

  18. The fact of the matter is that all these men have different ways of making a living, and each man thinks his own way the best and fears to make new experiments, such an opinion being good for the trade of begging.

  19. Thank God meanwhile I have no supernatural fears about you!

  20. The men who are always scaring themselves and others by such fears are either very ignorant or very hypocritical.

  21. She seemed inconsolable; talked much of her loss, and expressed great fears for the future.

  22. Surely, that must be a very timid man who, in this relation of the parties, fears anything from the increase of free negroes.

  23. While her heart was joyful at the prospect of her own release, it was clouded with fears for the uncertain fate of her beloved friend.

  24. Indiana is the daughter of a brave; she fears not to die.

  25. Yes, it is Wolfe; not the fierce creature of her dreams by night and her fears by day, but her father's own brave, devoted dog.

  26. What singular emotions fill Their bosoms, who have been induced to roam, With flattering doubts, if all be well or ill, With love for many, and with fears for some!

  27. When they grumbled, she told tales of the savagery and lust of the heathen, and made their fears ache more lustily than did their feet.

  28. Garlotte, standing in her cottage door, half shy and timid, found her small fears mere little goblins of her own invention.

  29. How many a heart trembles with the return of day; what fears rise with the first blush of light in an empty sky!

  30. And now I am like one that has caught an angel in his net, and fears to come too nigh, lest fire should flash from the eyes of the startled splendour, and consume the net and him who holds it.

  31. His spirit seemed to soar aloft in the yellow air, and hang hovering over and around her, while his body stood rooted to the spot, like one who fears by moving nigher to lose the lovely vision of a mirage.

  32. Who fears a sentence or an old man's saw Shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe.

  33. The management, the employees of the plaza, and the innumerable devotees whom this forced suspension cast into an ill humor, watched the firmament with the anxiety of the peasant who fears for his crops.

  34. For him rest was impossible, and the poor women, after a period of tranquillity, saw their old fears and anguish renewed.

  35. Such was his mettle that he went to the plaza free from the superstitious fears of former times.

  36. He spent the morning without the vague fears and superstitious preoccupations of other occasions.

  37. These moments of uncertainty, in which vague fears emerged from the depths of his soul, making him doubt himself, were the bitterest in his professional experience.

  38. I Great fears the women of antiquity In arms and hallowed arts as well have done, And of their worthy works the memory And lustre through this ample world has shone.

  39. By the lamenting Child I know not how Is liked his sudden presence in that place; Who fears annoy or trouble at his hand; And lest he should his wish for death withstand.

  40. LXII "In what condition think you, sir, remained The wretched elder by his fears opprest?

  41. Nor let me tell my sorrows, lest they move Him his perverse and evil will to wave; Shunning me like malignant asp, that fears To change his mood, if he the charmer hears.

  42. He fears the ill may happen which is said, Unless against the mischief he provide; And hence his meiny, who have changed their ire Already into fear, he bids retire.

  43. The sahib knows what talk over a hookah is, each one trying to show great knowledge; but it is whispered at such times that the Missie Baba, who fears neither horse nor spirit, comes here at night.

  44. These fears are taking the shape of associations for the promotion of scientific forestry, and the establishment of large forest reserves near the headwaters of our streams, which are to serve also the purpose of national parks.

  45. He was deathly afraid, with full knowledge of the power of the enemy he went to combat, but his fears were impotent to restrain him at the first sound of that masterful voice.

  46. All further effort to repel her fears came to nothing.

  47. She understood, now, why these long weeks had been a delight rather than a torment; why her fears for him had gone so straight to her heart.

  48. He was a master canoeist, and whatever fears she might have had vanished at once.

  49. You'll be safe enough--even the fate that Neilson fears for you won't happen.

  50. Where they'll have to hunt for me, week on week and month on month, their fears eating into them.

  51. The actual labor of building it might take her mind from her fears for a while at least; and its warm glow might dispel the growing cold of fear and loneliness in her breast.

  52. The confession of his superstitious fears exhibits honesty and candour.

  53. I started back frightened by his fall, in which my fears found a sort of life; but it was soon clear to me his rigidity was that of a man frozen to death.

  54. My detectives allayed her fears as much as possible, but it was plainly observable that she was really annoyed by the occurrence.

  55. Robert Nettleton set his teeth and swore that he would never search for her, while his poor wife was completely broken and crushed as much from the agonized fears that flooded into her heart as from the actual loss of her child.

  56. Lilly, in general, was very affectionate with Miss von Schwertfeger, despite her fear of that lady's censoriousness and despite other fears of which she could not rid herself.

  57. Full of fears and doubts she worked over herself night and day.

  58. Every orange grower fears them, and if they once get a foothold the tree that they attack is often destroyed before anything is suspected to be the matter.

  59. He fears not to tread the dreary path before him, because his lantern, which was kindled at the fireside of his home, will light him back to that same fireside again.

  60. He struggled, however, against the superstitious fears which belonged to the age, and compelled himself to pause and listen.

  61. I was too ashamed of my fears to ever tell him about that," replied the other, quickly.

  62. Hugh would keep the secret, of that Tom felt assured, and no one need ever know what terrible fears he had been entertaining on account of Benjy.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.