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Discover LudwigThe phrase "afraid to enter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a feeling of fear or apprehension about entering a place or situation.
Example: "She stood at the door, afraid to enter the dark room."
Alternatives: "hesitant to go in" or "fearful of entering".
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The whites in the class remained silent, as though afraid to enter this treacherous terrain.
Ted has never been afraid to enter a hostile environment and speak his mind.
Martin said she was too afraid to enter the basement to feed them.
Never afraid to enter into controversies, he was for many years one of children's literature's best-known ambassadors.
"People are now afraid to enter the street, because of that demonstration," a falafel seller in Jaffa shouted angrily.
When Ms. Datsayeva, 64, their neighbor, returned three years ago, she said, she was afraid to enter her home.
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Her confidence towards them is such, that she is not afraid at all to enter the surgery again, when she knows that the operation will be undertaken by these individuals.
Bahaa prevailed, but the men were too afraid of the Gevgelija police to enter town again.
She declined to enter the downhill, afraid to risk injury.
Mr. Donovan, who had previously worked as a personal valet to Bob Hope, was originally hired in 2002 to help combat so-called "Pretty Woman" syndrome, which left some shoppers hesitant to enter upscale stores, afraid of being humiliated by snooty sales clerks like the Julia Roberts character was in that film.
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