FEAR in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for FEAR, such as:

1. Riches bring care and fear.
2. Keep conscience clear,then never fear.
3. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
4. The fear of ill exceeds the ills we fear.
5. I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts.

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 Meanings and Examples of FEAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fear
 n.  emotion caused by the nearness or possibility of danger, pain, evil
 v.  be afraid
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  I fear he will be severe with you despite my pleadings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The victim did not report the incident for fear of retribution.
17  The fear of ill exceeds the ills we fear.
18  When we have gold we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger.
19  I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts.
20  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
21  It is only fear first in the world that made gods.
22  Her parents fear that, living in this neighbourhood, she might stray into the wrong company.
23  Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
24  Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.
25  Conquer of fear of death and you are put into possession of your life.
26  Riches bring care and fear.
27  The company is being forced to reduce staff and I fear I'm a likely candidate.
28  Keep conscience clear,then never fear.
29  At bottom, such an attitude is born not of concern for your welfare, but out of fear of losing you.
30  The fear is that we have no exit strategy from this conflict.