Sentence examples for ground afraid from inspiring English sources

I lay on the ground afraid my father would beat me because Juma played with a mine.

Asmaa, Mr Zawaraa's 17-year-old sister, said: "We were afraid the ground invasion would come here.

I cannot account for the World Telegram's missing out on this fairly obvious feature idea, made to order for its heart-throb experts, except on the ground that it is afraid of being lured again into following the Communist line.

I found it unfair of Glauber to have left me on the ground that I was afraid of everything, since we'd met at Group: a group for people suffering from general anxiety disorder, which I'd joined after dropping out of the group for hypochondriacs, because it didn't encompass all my worries.

I wrote a message asking Gates whether it was possible that the alliance with Time Warner and T.C.I. was on shaky ground because Gerald Levin and John Malone were afraid that Gates was too smart for them.Gates wrote: Your mail is the first time I have ever heard anyone suggest that John Malone and Jerry Levin deserve sympathy.

On the ground, Hollande is still afraid of the "nay sayers" on a strong federal Europe.

When it was time to sleep, we slept on the ground, because we were afraid of bullets coming into our house," he noted.

More bump-in-the-night than blood-on-the-ground, "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" is an old-fashioned spooker suggesting that dysfunctional families might benefit more from malignant demons than from a benign therapist.

If you are at risk of serious injury, especially if you are not on school grounds, do not be afraid to call the police.

There are also courts on the ground floor if you're afraid of heights.

(d) Chuck Norris's endorsement of Huckabee on the ground that he is "not afraid to stand up for a Creator".