Sentence examples for were afraid to open from inspiring English sources

For years, young people were afraid to open a Koran.

For months, people everywhere were afraid to open their mail.

"The Taliban announced that women should not go out of their homes, so we were afraid to open the hamam," said Sharifa, 27, who with her cousin, Golsum, 17, runs a hamam for women near the town prison.

In addition to 55 kinds of fish, we land old bottles; automobile tires; reams of decomposing paper; entire trees; bows, planks, and odd pieces of ships; enough metal office furniture to outfit an office building; rotted carp dumped from a market; large plastic garbage bags we were afraid to open; and a dead dog.

I was afraid to open them.

"I remember that I was afraid to open the box.

He was afraid to open it and thought he heard ticking inside.

All the women say: 'I am afraid to open up.' It is spoken with reluctant pride.

JUDITH: I am afraid to open another window because this laptop is so cranky JUDITH: Yes what was she wearing?

"Culture in Italy is in the hands of people who may know everything about Vasari" but are afraid to open up to change, he said.

This was a publication I had always been afraid to open, on the grounds that it seemed likely to make Uncut look like the Wire.