How to Use coward in a Sentence
coward
noun
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Called a coward, Booth decides to reveal himself as Lincoln’s killer.
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Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
5 Apr. 2024
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So be brave and be honest, and watch the cowards fall in your wake.
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Heather Havrilesky,
The Cut,
1 Nov. 2017
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Cowards daubed swastikas on her car and in the lift in her apartment block.
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The Economist,
5 July 2017
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These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one.
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Matt Ford,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2016
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But the award for the NRA coward of the week goes to the Georgia legislature.
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Dahleen Glanton,
chicagotribune.com,
5 Mar. 2018
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Give us the win, you cowards! ’Tis the season for shopping.
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Chicago Tribune Staff,
chicagotribune.com,
27 Nov. 2019
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And law enforcement does not go to war with cowards who break the law.
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Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
30 Aug. 2019
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The first is the idea the idea that school shooters are cowards who would melt away in the presence of an armed teacher.
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Peter King,
SI.com,
28 Feb. 2018
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Matthew Yglesias: One in three is a great coward’s call.
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Matthew Yglesias,
Vox,
16 Aug. 2019
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He was called a coward, a traitor, a dupe, and an uppity N-word.
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Jonathan Eig,
Slate Magazine,
26 Sep. 2017
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Law enforcement does not go to war with cowards who break the law.
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Eric Heisig,
cleveland.com,
30 Aug. 2019
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The cowards cut the statue off at the ankles, leaving nothing but two shoes on a base the shape of home plate.
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Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2024
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Like what, low-crawling out of town like a bunch of sniveling cowards?
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2024
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Cast Laverne Cox in the next Marvel movie, you cowards.
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Gabe Bergado,
Teen Vogue,
7 May 2019
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Women who play nice with their abusers are not cowards.
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Jessica Knoll,
The Cut,
17 Oct. 2017
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Scotchee is a coward and should live with that shame forever.
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Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2022
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But here's the thing: Most of you mayonnaise haters out there are hypocrites and cowards.
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Emily Dreyfuss,
WIRED,
4 July 2019
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History will brand them as cowards and as traitors to the country’s best ideals.
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Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
26 Jan. 2018
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To avoid reckoning with bigotry in beloved books is the coward's way out.
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David M. Perry,
CNN,
28 Sep. 2021
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Heroes die, and then someone else tells their story, but the cowards and draft dodgers live to tell their own.
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Emily Meg Weinstein,
Longreads,
19 Dec. 2017
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Scot Peterson has been called a coward and worse for failing to stop the massacre.
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CBS News,
27 Feb. 2018
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In the end, these cowards are selling their soul for barely anything.
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GQ,
11 Oct. 2017
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But just taking him at his word means there are a bunch of white cowards and racists living here, because no one stood up to the guy.
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Michael Harriot,
The Root,
17 May 2017
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If Democrats back out of impeachment, they will be scorned by the base as a bunch of simpering cowards.
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David Harsanyi,
National Review,
26 Nov. 2019
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The science and media outlets that try to warn us of the dangers are tricksters, after all, and isn’t fear the coward’s way?
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Lydia Millet,
TIME,
2 Apr. 2024
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Nora suffers the slings and arrows of Roxanne, who calls her a coward.
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Nick Schager,
EW.com,
1 Nov. 2021
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Varga, the coward, hangs back in the elevator while the army checks out the storage hallway.
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Zane Moses,
baltimoresun.com,
22 June 2017
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Face-to-face contact doesn’t register in the world of cheapskate cowards.
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Bruce Jenkins,
San Francisco Chronicle,
27 Oct. 2017
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Lake, for her part, has branded Hobbs a coward for not debating.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
11 Oct. 2022
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Democrats who fund the campaigns of election deniers are no better than the cowards and bootlickers described in that book.
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Krista Kafer,
The Denver Post,
12 June 2024
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