Sentence examples for then afraid from inspiring English sources

"Brian said to me that he was then afraid to go into the ruck in case he got a yellow card".

Then, afraid that the city would take her away after another outburst, Mr. Vasquez said, he agreed to sign her over to foster care.

Many schools, too, discontinued gymnastics programs around then, afraid of liability issues, so a stream of balance-beam jumpers and uneven-bar flippers entered cheerleading, raising the stakes.

That elite was then afraid to have fair elections because they feared the people would elect leaders who would take that property from them and maybe send them to jail.

Discusses the presentations of several scientists, including Delgado, Bechtereva, Dongier & Bogoch, & tells about the experiments of Dr. G. Ungar, who trained rats to fear the dark, isolated "scotophobin" from their brains, & injected the substance into untrained mice, who were then afraid of the dark.

Then, afraid it would affect her own relationship with the card company, she had a change of heart.

Why then are we so afraid of them?

Which begs the question, "What are we so afraid of?" Then, find the commonality.

Back then, I was so afraid that I couldn't even say it out loud.

[They] started and then became afraid.

In both cases, investors first showed relief, then grew afraid again.