cowering
- present participle of cower.
Example Sentences
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The distance between Americans and the people in other countries cowering as death rains down on them from the sky has always been vast both geographically and culturally.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026
For Ms. Sweeney and Ms. Seyfried it provides an endless variety of opportunities to run through the soap-opera playbook of screaming, cowering, deceiving and attacking depending on the circumstances, which grow increasingly horrifying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
On Friday, Musk shared two side-by-side A.I.-generated images of graffiti-style stencils: a smiling, handsome Kirk, and a cowering, dying Zarutska.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025
The Grimsby result is one thing, but the sight of Amorim cowering in the dugout during the penalty shootout - it's difficult to imagine someone like Sir Alex Ferguson doing that.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
The mental movie of a mouse cowering in the corner of a cage that has another mouse in it gets chunked into “social avoidance.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
