Sentence examples for cower under from inspiring English sources

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"cower under" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is usually used to describe someone shrinking back in fear, or hiding from something. For example, "The terrified little girl cowered under the table."

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The Daily Mail would cower under a rock.

But at the first sign of trouble they cower under their beds like gutless cowards".

Upset by the screeching, it would cower under a table, trembling.

Though plenty of pups cower under the sofa when a storm rages, Rosie seems to be as much reader (or one-being-read-to) surrogate as pet.

Bad sex for Roth and Co It's that time of year again: the time when novelists cower under the bedclothes for fear of public disgrace.

I wanted to take cover underneath it, but felt too stupid to cower under there while everybody else stood calmly by their desks.

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Terrified, the children cowered under the bed.

Terrified, we cowered under the sheets until it moved off.

Only four survived, cowering under bullet-riddled bodies.

Private Baldrick is cowering under a bunk bed.

Cowering under the nearest tarpaulin, Pandora spotted Cameron heading off to watch The Bangles.

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