Sentence examples for frightened of talking from inspiring English sources

Over a watery coffee and a Wagon Wheel, he maintained that he was not frightened of talking to the press.

But if I were a journalist in this country, I would now be very frightened of talking to the Muslim Brotherhood – even though they are an important part of the story.

She said: "People are frightened of talking about sexual ethics because they know if they do so they will be viewed as hateful, as phobic, as bigots.

In phone conversations with people in Syria, many said they were too frightened to talk, and others rescinded earlier condemnations of the government's use of violence.

With her face buried in her lap, Rim Sunhee (not her real name) is frightened to talk to a stranger from Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

Many of the relatives, once desperate to tell their children's stories, were now too frightened to talk.

Pressed for an opinion, one surviving soul says "I am too frightened to talk".

Joyce was too frightened to talk about the rape.

"Many elected officials have been frightened of the reaction should they even talk about the climate crisis much less propose the obvious solution we need to put a price on carbon," he said.

This concise yet open-ended book accepts the novelistic challenge of an aside in Nothing to Be Frightened Of: "We talk about our memories, but should perhaps talk more about our forgettings, even if that is a more difficult – or logically impossible – feat".

Rumours about who is frightened of any potential trial, in case Mr Kelmendi talks about high-level protection, is reaching fever pitch.