Sentence examples for scared to stand from inspiring English sources

"I'm scared to stand here.

They were scared to stand before their classes, they wrote.

"I'm paranoid, scared to stand at a bus stop," Ms. Sturghil said.

His former radio sidekick John Revell claimed he was "out of control" and that BBC bosses were too scared to stand up to him.

These companies believe that because of the bad times we are living through, we will be too scared to stand up for our rights.

I was too scared to stand out in a crowd of gorillas while at the same time mentally condemning them for their behaviour.

Are racist demagogues winning the battle for control of the ANC? Are decent black men scared to take a stand lest they find themselves alongside whites, trussed up in the missionary cooking pot while Malema lights a fire beneath us?

But why weren't there countless others in the months proceeding November's Vanity Fair piece in which Dylan, now a fully grown woman, came forward and embraced her voice and the validity of the claims she was too scared to make on the stand as a terrified seven year old?

But why weren't there countless others in the months preceding November's Vanity Fair piece in which Dylan, now a fully grown woman, came forward and embraced her voice and the validity of the claims she was too scared to make on the stand as a terrified seven-year-old?

Nor was she scared to lob the strapping Muscovite, who stands 6ft 1in in her stockinged feet and at the net must look scarier than the Lubyanka.

They are scared to dream big, so they'd rather just stand still.