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Example sentences for "funked"

Lexicographically close words:
funguses; funicle; funicular; funiculus; funk; funking; funky; funnel; funneled; funnelled
  1. But he said that it only showed Tinned Cow had lost his nerve, and funked what he was doing at the critical moment.

  2. Morris funked getting down for some time; then a draggon-fly actually sored past and so much excited him that he said he was reddy if I went first.

  3. We held up to them all down the Willow Reach, and were just collaring them for the finish up to Balsham Weir, when the beasts pulled in and funked it.

  4. I should have jeered at myself ever afterwards: "So you funked it, you funked it, you funked the real thing!

  5. You know, I have often said that to excuse myself after I have funked a thing, and let something go by without speaking up against it.

  6. Funked standing up for the right thing, you know.

  7. Grantley fairly "funked it," and honestly said so.

  8. Told you they'd be funked by all this ceremony," said Traill.

  9. They'll be funked utterly and look as if they were trying to break bubbles, then they'll warm up a bit.

  10. Next the banderilleros tackled him, but such was his speed and ferocity that all three funked the work, and not one of them fastened his flag in the black shoulders.

  11. Now no one will go--all have funked it, and I suppose you will want to follow suit!

  12. And his answer "No, I've funked it--funked hurting her and Jon and myself.

  13. I should have funked it," was his way of putting it, by which he meant that he would have funked it through sheer ignorance of himself and of his aptitude for the high and noble.

  14. If he had funked the sacrifice it would have been on his conscience all the rest of his life.

  15. You oughtn't to have funked telling your mother what you meant to do.

  16. It was going to be dangerous and he funked it.

  17. I know he had orders to go to Zele himself and the damned coward funked it.

  18. Going by herself was better than going with a man who funked it.

  19. He just funked it you know, dad,' he said, when he explained the matter to his father.

  20. The fellows are saying it was beastly mean of him, and he funked it because Taylor is a bigger fellow.

  21. He funked horribly but he funked losing his job still more, and he took her home as far as Port Said, with a cargo of tobacco from Sumatra.

  22. So far, he had never funked a fight; if it took his last bit of strength, he would go pluckily through this last, worse fight which he was destined to face.

  23. He shipped in a leaky boat with a crew composed of one Kaffir boy; the Kaffir funked the surf; they had an upset and Eaton-Hill waked up the picket by the fervor of his swearing at the half-drowned Kaffir.

  24. It had been hot and heavy; but at least he had not funked it.

  25. He sulked at Folkestone, he funked at Speen, He baulked at the ditch at Hampton Green, Nick Kingston thought him a slug and cur, 'You must cut his heart out to make him stir.

  26. As for Jimmy, it was easy to see that he didn't like the idea at all; but he had jarred himself a good deal in his eccentric fall, and evidently funked another tramp.

  27. The others were to have a carriage sent back to them from Toulon, but Aunt Mary funked the long drive on account of a furious storm.

  28. I've gone into too many cases connected with ghostly things, to be accused of that; but I tell you I funked it; simply funked it, just like any blessed kid.

  29. You know what it was I funked more than anything--all those beastly rotten things going to happen all over again.

  30. You see I rather funked just jumping in at Dover and trusting to luck to bring me across.


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