Sentence examples for being afraid of leaving from inspiring English sources

The child rejected this, however, being afraid of leaving her own parents.

We all sleep 3-4 hours daily and we are afraid of leaving a house.

I'm afraid of leaving, but not happy enough to stay.

Parents are afraid of leaving the house, and children fear every day that parents will not return home.

As a rule, Vakhapov said, guards were afraid of leaving obvious signs of violence on prisoners' faces.

At one point Mr. Siegel was close to settling because he could not take the stress and was afraid of leaving his family with nothing.

They're afraid of leaving themselves vulnerable to personal remarks – ones that hurt – or of children asking for them not to be allowed in the PE changing rooms.

He brings the food back to his bench because he is afraid of leaving his belongings for any length of time.

But some people who were on a lower floor were afraid of leaving as the gunmen traded fire with the security forces," said the source, who did not wish to be identified.

Bette Nakamura, a lawyer who lives a block away, said that for weeks she had been afraid of leaving her two teenage sons alone at home during the day while she worked.

In "The Devil Finds Work," Baldwin recalls his friend's challenge: To stay in the church merely because I was afraid of leaving it was unutterably far beneath me, and too despicable a cowardice for him to support in any friend of his.