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

The elemental forces of wind and fire, of rushing water and driving storm before which the savage had cowered low for shelter, these had become his servants.

From The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Leacock, Stephen

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 Green, Anna Katharine

After binding Odo, there was still a piece of the rope left: with this Fulk secured the dog, which, frightened and astonished, had cowered on the earth.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

That was now a year since, and he had partly outlived the evil;—but some men still remembered that Felix Carbury had been cowed, and had cowered.

From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony