Sentence examples for was cower from inspiring English sources
verb
To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
- He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.
Nature was careening toward a steep cliff, and all I could do was cower in the backseat holding two flimsy double-D cups instead of a parachute.
By that time, I was cowering in a corner, afraid to look.
He was cowering like a dog in the middle of a scolding.
His patient had just been through a firefight and now was cowering under a cot, refusing to come out.
The man they had all been hunting was cowering in the foul-smelling hole in front of them.
From what I could make out in the gloom, he was cowering on his hands and knees.
Ms. Toti borrowed gardening gloves and a box and proceeded to talk calmly to the squirrel that was cowering in a corner.
"After the hangings, my dad was cowering with his family in his flat in Liverpool while people were breaking windows and shouting: 'Burn the Jews!
General Renuart said that when commandos entered her room at the hospital in Nasiriya she was cowering in fear under a bed sheet.
Some Japanese tourists rang the bell and I was cowering in the kitchen.' But she took control of her nerves and within an afternoon had a full house.
At midday on Friday, the stock was cowering at under $11.
