Sentence examples for terrified to ask from inspiring English sources

I didn't know the troopers' names — I would have been terrified to ask anything of them.

"Talking to him at the line of scrimmage, it's not the same as it used to be where I was just terrified to ask, 'Man, I really don't know what's going on, Nick, help.' He's just so good".

I'm too terrified to ask if we would eventually get the money back.

Maybe because even after decades of personal recovery, I still felt the societal shame that leaves so many too terrified to ask for help.

In post-Tiananmen China, the Communist party could only turn their country into a vast export credit zone with massacres and mass imprisonment that made ordinary Chinese workers too terrified to ask for even the most meager rights.

There are both full-time and adjunct professors who have toiled at ASA for years without a raise, and they are too terrified to ask for one (a common joke in the faculty offices is that professors who speak out either get canned or they end up "in a Brighton Beach basement").

President Obama, who seems absolutely terrified to take on the gun lobby, didn't even mention guns when asked about his second-term priorities.

"I was terrified to walk around.

Which gay-rights activist was terrified to be interviewed by the F.B.I. — only to find that they were asking about someone else? Edith Windsor.

Which gay-rights activist was terrified to be interviewed by the F.B.I. — only to find that they were asking about someone else?

All were terrified to speak.