Sentence examples for terrified of doing something from inspiring English sources

"Maxine was terrified of doing something wrong, of hurting him.

"Foreign firms are terrified of doing something illegal, but in the end they are businessmen," he says.

That's what the exhilarating, terrifying experience of doing something new has taught me.

Shalala, meanwhile, did something most college presidents are terrified of doing: She openly criticized the N.C.A.A., accusing it of leaking false information and labeling some of its investigative tactics as "ludicrous".

I'm proud of it, and I'm proud of the fact that it was something I was terrified of doing but did anyway".

Asking people to do those two things is something politicians are usually terrified of doing.

What Cooper did was bring that backstage racism to the front stage -- something that millions of white Americans are terrified of doing for fear of being called a racist.

"I thought, What else am I terrified of doing?

"When we first started out, I was terrified of doing anything wrong onstage," he said.

Amy: That's why weren't terrified of doing it.

He kept going, and going, and delivered a stem-winding ending about how George Washington became terrified at the end of his life about doing something that would dishonor himself and his country.