Sentence examples for afraid of giving from inspiring English sources

I am afraid of giving birth because I have seen women die trying.

Afraid of giving offence, we reach instead for evasive euphemisms: curvy, solid, big-boned, etc.

Chiller is reminder of a time when networks weren't afraid of giving horror writers free rein.

"I'm afraid of giving birth here, frankly," she says, "because of many things.

Despite Resnais's grand historical, even philosophical schema, he seems afraid of giving it voice.

She thrives on physical intimacy and is not afraid of giving or receiving it.

Speaking on behalf of that organisation, he said the board "cannot work out what the government is afraid of", given the near universal support for change.

Under "Frying Pan" we are told, "The writer who produces an ungrammatical, an ugly, or even a noticeably awkward phrase, & lets us see that he has done it in trying to get rid of something else that he was afraid of, gives a worse impression of himself than if he had risked our catching him in his original misdemeanour; he is out of the frying-pan into the fire".

For centuries, they have been afraid of girls giving them cooties.

"There really is nothing to do," said a resident who was either afraid or tired of giving her name, given the score of journalists who visited.

The building was suspicious of her, she said, because it was afraid of paparazzi, given that photos of her have tended to appear after various events in the city.