Example Sentences

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Even if most reactions are not as extreme as the dog who tears out its nails while frantically scratching a door, many dogs will cower, pace and defecate indoors.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2016

"Let no individual, group, candidate or supporter imagine that cowardly and dark acts such as these will cower us," Mutunga told a news conference.

From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2013

There probably won't be an earthquake in Southern California today, but five million people will cower under furniture anyway.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this crash the eagles will fall dead in mid air, and the lions in Afric's most distant deserts will cower and sneak into their royal dens.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

Though dark the tempest lower, What arms will wear the tyrants chains, What dastard heart will cower?

From Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 by Anonymous