Sentence examples for if afraid from inspiring English sources

They perform with polite timidity, as if afraid that their characters might break if fully embraced.

Yet he sounded tentative, as if afraid of sticking out too much in this reverberant space.

Ian Bostridge, at the première, delivered the aria with hushed passion, as if afraid of waking from a dream.

As if afraid that the parallel with Rowling sounds presumptuous, she blushes and fiddles with a pendant.

Then he clicked his case shut and hurried out the door, as if afraid I'd change my mind.

She claps gently and gives her fist a half-pump, almost as if afraid that someone will see.

"If people are afraid, if you chill dissent, you chill basic rights," she says.

If your afraid of your parents, then you'll usually be nicer to them.

KAINE: And if -- if you're afraid to have the discussion, you'll never solve it.

I asked him if he was afraid of losing it — if he was afraid of what people might say.

Or if you are afraid your main account could be hacked if you edit in public.