Sentence examples for it were afraid from inspiring English sources

On the largest screen, the saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc serenades Berlin from an apartment building that locals call Long Sorrow; the camera creeps up on him as though it were afraid of startling him, and one realizes that Moondoc is on the outside of a window several stories above the trees.

Mr. Arnett -- whose reporting from Baghdad was criticized as being swayed by the Iraqi government's giving him exclusive access -- said CNN was behaving as if it were afraid that by reporting the enemy's claims, it would alienate some of its audience.

"In the living room, the voice clock sang 'tick tock, seven o'clock, time to get up'… as if it were afraid that nobody would".

"It was afraid to face reality".

It is afraid to let loose.

I can't think what it's afraid of.

"It is afraid of everything, afraid to do anything.

"I called it being afraid of my desk.

It's afraid the deal will become a slippery slope".

It's afraid, it's forced to hide, but it's there, behind the screens.

Try and pick it up, but it is afraid to leave because Kitten is gone.