Sentence examples for cower behind from inspiring English sources

A fence to cower behind, to keep out change, or at least to slow it down.

This is strictly against train rules so they cower behind curtains when pouring their shots.

Shops, businesses and government offices in Bangkok cower behind makeshift concrete parapets and piles of sandbags.

If I cower behind my newspaper, the subway panhandler will overlook me.

In a 1944 beach scene, scrawny Nazis cower behind a rowboat under the headline: "The End of the Resort Season".

Temperamentally not a man to cower behind banalities, he will hold the government's feet to the fire.

A front line of obliterated roads, burned-out police cars and crawling APCs is populated by groups of soldiers cowering behind great chunks of fallen masonry.

Workmen were putting the finishing touches to many of the original shops and restaurants, while the flagship Nakumatt superstore, where shoppers cowered behind shelves as the gunmen picked them off, is bigger than ever.

Alexander cowers behind the Christmas tree.

Her Olivia would surely have Lorenzo cowering behind the sofa.

Witnesses cowering behind buildings heard screams and gunshots.