Example Sentences

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Since guinea pigs’ primary activities are cowering and scuttling, one might assume they offer little value, but this is not the case.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2023

Unsurprisingly, bonds - so many investors' asset class of choice this year - are cowering at the prospect.

From Reuters • Feb. 17, 2023

If you have understocked your Halloween candy and are cowering in your dark apartment waiting for the neighborhood children to stop knocking, you might want something scary to pass the time.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021

Meanwhile, us wusses are cowering under our sheets.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2019

In the body of the long narrow church are cowering on the benches all kinds of dilapidated figures, men and women, almost all old, frail, and crippled,--those able to work have no time to pray.

From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip