Sentence examples for slightly afraid of from inspiring English sources

"It's thought he was slightly afraid of Picasso's influence," Alexander Klee said.

That does not mean that they are not often slightly afraid of her, too.

"I was slightly afraid of cats," Mya told us earlier, "because of the claws.

He was slightly afraid of his son, who was developing a sharp tongue.

In the circumstances, I'm slightly afraid of asking the next question, but it is about books, at least.

Twenty-five yeafterfter I first encountered Plop and his fears, I remain slightly afraid of the dark myself, especially in the freezing deep of winter.

Perhaps he is too busy being anxious about my mother, being slightly afraid for both of them, to sit as he used to, triumphant and calm and secure.

The person in that dress was someone I would be curious to meet and also someone of whom I might be slightly afraid.

He is irritated, feels impatient, becomes slightly afraid.

Alvin Stardust is a reminder that one of the very best things pop music can do is to make you feel ever-so-slightly afraid.

So egregious did I find the whole performance that, as the defendant returned to his seat, slightly hunched, as if afraid of bumping his head on something, I felt a deep desire to see the prosecutor lose the case.