FEAR in a Sentence

Learn FEAR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for FEAR, such as:
1. He clasped my arm with fear.
2. The man was almost incoherent with fear.
3. All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.
4. He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.
5. I fear he will be severe with you despite my pleadings.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FEAR
fear
 v.  be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
 v.  be uneasy or apprehensive about
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  During the first months Ethan alternately burned with the desire to see Mattie defy her and trembled with fear of the result.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  That would be fatal, as only old men and very old ladies could belch without fear of social disapproval.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  She did not even feel his pinch, for she could hear clearly the sweet voice that was Melanie's chief charm: "I fear I cannot agree with you about Mr. Thackeray's works."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Now she had lost and, greater than her sense of loss, was the fear that she had made a public spectacle of herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  As the whisperings merged together violently, questioning, interrupting, Scarlett felt herself go cold with fear and humiliation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  The sight of these men threw the County boys into a panic for fear the war would be over before they could reach Virginia, and preparations for the Troop's departure were speeded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  When Dr. Fontaine told Ellen gravely that heartbreak frequently led to a decline and women pined away into the grave, Ellen went white, for that fear was what she had carried in her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  The young ladies of the town, who were not permitted to nurse for fear they would see sights unfit for virgin eyes, had the convalescent wards in their charge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Poor Pittypat had been quaking in her number-three shoes for fear of being blamed for Scarlett's forward conduct and would be the last to notify Ellen of her own inadequate chaperonage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  I fear he will be severe with you despite my pleadings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  Now, her never- too-scrupulous sense of honor was dulled by repetition of the offense and even fear of discovery had subsided.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  For I am fighting for the old days, the old ways I love so much but which, I fear, are now gone forever, no matter how the die may fall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  Then, I fear, we will become like the Yankees, at whose money-making activities, acquisitiveness and commercialism we now sneer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  I do not belong in this mad present of killing and I fear I will not fit into any future, try though I may.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  But you have asked me what was in my heart, and the fear of defeat is there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
2  There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
3  All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.
4  We mustn't fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
5  The man was almost incoherent with fear.
6  She felt a prickle of fear as she realized that she was alone.
7  To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
8  The study showed a deep fear among the elderly of being abandoned to the care of strangers.
9  We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.
10  He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.
11  He clasped my arm with fear.
12  We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
13  There's been much fear that the United Nations peacekeepers would be under attack in a situation like that.
14  Behind the fear of an ideal you, you create the fear, you can beat him.
15  The trip was made all the worse by Frankie's morbid fear of flying.