Sentence examples for a few frightened from inspiring English sources

Tai made her inaugural "lap around Pratt" after a few frightened tears and walked away happy with her red ribbon.

Around me were a few frightened students and a grave-faced lecturer who went on eating his sandwich on the concrete steps as if nothing were happening.

Of course there are a few frightened holdouts--some callers still hang up when a machine answers, just as some machine owners still record lengthy outgoing messages filled with anachronistically detailed instructions.

As such, the behavior of the tea party protesters betrays a last, desperate, and highly aggressive effort by a few frightened bigots (and many more misguided, manipulated souls lacking the confidence or tools to think for themselves) to give relevance to a decaying worldview.

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A few people mumbled frightened words about the approach of the millennium, and several dropped on their knees and prayed.

A few spoke about how frightened and betrayed they felt.

To prove it, she shows photographs of herself as a frightened immigrant, taken only a few years ago.

That world was "now filled with soft, bruised, frightened people scheming over a few lumps of coal or a spoonful of sugar".

He took in our frightened, sad faces for a few perfectly timed beats and said, "I think it's the flu".

Megan was picked up a few times by the police, but was too frightened to tell them the truth in case they were in league with her abusers.