cower

Split up into ones and twos, they are easy targets for the shooters, who find it easy to pick off cowering people one by one.

Hervey, cowering in the chair, thus met with an antagonist against whom he had no armor.

He was standing over her now, and she was cowering before him, her shaking hands rising as though to ward off his eyes.

Filling his cupped hands with water, he sent up shower after shower of mimic rain between them and the miserable, cowering beast.

They bend their necks, cowering before the fierce glow, but daring it, and prepared to face it at even closer range.

Crash after crash sent them cowering under the covers of their beds.