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Example sentences for fearful

Once it became a little less unknown it became a little less fearful.
Fearful of lawsuits, they are consumed by the legal obligations of personnel policies.
As the protests persist, people are fearful yet defiant.
The lack of socialization to people and the outside world can cause a dog to be fearful.
It is the military custom to salute a visiting ruler, or his proxy, with twenty-one distinct and fearful noises.
Fearful of being dubbed collaborators, the protesters have called off rallies until the end of the month.
Psychologists have known for some time that it is difficult to treat fearful memories with therapy.
It seems to me that the meaning is you are returning back to a lower sun but don't be fearful.
It is a fearful step, but after the first step, it gets much easier.
It originated in the wood on the boiler deck, between the chimneys, and immediately spread with fearful rapidity.
Some of us are quite successfully pursuing the adjunct road, fearful though it may be.
People with normal brains always looked immediately at the eye region of a face-even more so when the face was fearful.
Never being able to release that deep fearful breath.
But in the end his fear of appearing fearful overcame his caution.
People at every level were nervous, insecure, fearful of the future.
There are so many fearful things that happen, so much uncertainty, but they are never afraid.
Pharmaceutical corporations, once fearful of drug pirates, can hardly wait to move in.
Employers fearful of such costs are understandably reluctant to hire.
Yet many say they are not fearful but elated by their privileged view of those who walked this land before them.
Furthermore, it is not indicating he is wrong because he is ignorant and fearful.
Many people are fearful of a loss of privacy and control from smart meters.
Do they act ito help perpetuate the situation that made us fearful in the first place.
Once, these countries were fearful of investment by outsiders.
Unfortunately, she became difficult to place because of her fearful and skittish nature.
It is a fabrication of a weak minded and fearful community.
We were constantly fearful of tripping and dropping expensive camera gear.
People are fearful of being seen to be doing something wrong.
Fearful aggression is a symptom of low self-esteem because its objective is to be left alone.
But the reality is the public, as anyone would be, is going to be fearful of what they don't know.
The day's tourists have gone, fearful of the ghosts and the hour-long drive across this rugged desert to the hotels of town.
Since that event her dog has become fearful of thunder.
Seven fearful dogs may each have a different reason for being fearful.
Head-on fights are counterproductive with fearful dogs because conflict reinforces the fearful mindset.
It really is up to us to control ourselves, to make the dogs learn to be less fearful.
She is so sweet, never aggressive, but really shy and fearful of people.
It's been my experience that dogs who are fearful have not learned to trust the leadership of their humans.
Reading some of these comments, it seems the real threat to feral cats are fearful human beings.
It's well-written and carries a poignant, if not fearful, portrait of intellectual malaise in our culture.
He recalls how fearful he was one day when he thought his father would have to take part in a duel.
It ends up sounding obsessive and fearful-a lover's paranoia creeping in.
Fearful or not, she's engrossed by the scientific questions.
Many of our students were inhibited, some even fearful, of actually making things.
Law-abiding citizens, already fearful, see things occurring that make them even more fearful.
His voyages into the depths of civilizations around the world only nourish this fearful vision.
They're fanatical and highly organized-twin ideas that at once keep us fearful and help them attract new members.
The mood aboard must have been fearful but quieter now.
The workers are often fearful, and rightly so, because so many are illegal immigrants.
But if it's left ambiguous, then a much wider range of people might feel fearful.
However, simple awareness of the fearful, stressful thinking literally slows the neural firing triggering the stress response.
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
All the authorities attest their valor and the fearful effect of their war cry.
As a result, those rats became less anxious and fearful.
It shows how subjugated the people are beneath him and how fearful they are.
Now life will return to its former fearful paralysis-the condition that can be borne.
But he notes that rats fed fish from the lake have been shown to react abnormally strongly to fearful and frustrating events.
They tell their friends or set up blogs, so the fearful conviction spreads.
The right wing is fearful of rationing, long waiting times, or being unable to choose a doctor.
Technology and the market, the radical and rapid turnover over lifestyles and choices, make people rightly fearful.
Others are fearful of food or develop eating disorders.
Police were baffled, the community was fearful, and the national media were fascinated.
Anyone facing major surgery has reason to be fearful.

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