Sentence examples for were so frightened of from inspiring English sources

But I think my parents were so frightened of me failing that they focused on that more than my success.

Some were calling for their parents, for their children, or for their wives, and trying to recognize them by their voices... Some people prayed for death because they were so frightened of dying.

An even deeper horror is that the black men, he believes, were forced to participate -- that they were so frightened of their employers that they would even stand by as a black youth was murdered.

Talking about her paternal grandfather, she'll say that he was supposed to have killed or maimed someone in a barroom brawl and that his children were so frightened of his drunken rages that the first sign of an eruption would send some of them leaping out of second-floor windows to escape.

Several city officials suggested that the municipal unions were so frightened of Mr. Giuliani that they were bargaining only halfheartedly in the hope of delaying negotiations so as to reach a contract with Mr. Giuliani's successor, presumably a Democrat who would be more sympathetic and more indebted to labor unions.

"I'm so frightened of the English.

He is the man who had been so frightened of her on the plane.

She says she was so frightened of rape that she had considered taking her own life.

I am sorry the field mice are so frightened of losing what they hold so dear.

I was so frightened of him I just had to suffer in silence".

It's like they are so frightened of getting it wrong they have exempted themselves from being fashionable".