cower
verb (used without object)
to crouch, as in fear or shame.
had cowered
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past perfectof cower.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Earl had cowered and cried, cold-hated his grandfather for a full two days.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
Six times he had returned to the treasure chamber, and six times Werper, the Belgian, had cowered in the black shadows at the far end of the long vault.
From Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Undine was trembling with one of her little-girl rages, the storms of destructive fury before which Mr. and Mrs. Spragg had cowered when she was a charming golden-curled cherub.
From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
She cast her eye down at the spot where her father and brother had cowered in their shackles, and shook her head.
From A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green
The little ones had cowered all day in the darkened hole, wondering why their mother did not come to feed them, wondering at the darkness and the change.
From Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted by Ernest Thompson Seton
