Example Sentences

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In such a panic as yours was, the average girl would have funked absolutely.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham

"I should have funked it," was his way of putting it, by which he meant that he would have funked it through sheer ignorance of himself and of his aptitude for the high and noble.

From The Street Called Straight by Lowell, Orson

If I don't come, they will know that I have funked.

From The Man from Brodney's by McCutcheon, George Barr

You make too much of what I did on Monday, it was nothing wonderful, and had I had time to think, I should probably have funked it.

From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez

It was a pity that Cyril was not locked in his room, and yet when it came to it he would probably have funked letting himself down from the window by knotted sheets.

From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton