Sentence examples for attempt to cower from inspiring English sources

We can also anticipate sit-downs with 60 Minutes where a deluded scandal figure will attempt to cower Steve Kroft the way he routinely cowers subordinates who treat him like Mick Jagger.

My protests and attempts to cower in the corner were met with an angry glare – and even more blasts of water.

"The First Lady comes and I'm going to cower?

Pistorius says: He is not one to "cower away.

Better to continue moving forward than to cower.

I'm not going to cower at home".

And people cower a bit, because they've had to cower for centuries," he said, alluding to the country's long history of inequality.

"I think what they're trying to do is to cower our society," he said.

"You teach them to cower and to hide in the shadows," she scolds.

There's no need to cower in your seat for two hours, however.

Even the nighttime, when Iraqis used to cower inside their homes, no longer scares them.