The word
"cowering" means to shrink or tremble in fear or to show servile or submissive behavior.
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Since these dogs must be able to assist their owners during thunderstorms or in other noisy situations, it's important that they do not
cower in fear when they hear a loud noise.
But far from
cowering behind the sofa, many English voters watching tonight's debate will have wished that they too could lend their vote to Nicola Sturgoen and the SNP.
Mourning deeply with us and hoping His people would not
cower under fear but rather get to work.
After an image of Lana
cowering at an animal shelter went viral in 2015, thousands of applications poured in and she found a new owner.
He is welcome to change my mind, but I wo
n't cower in fear and be dishonest about my judgment of him.
Rats given heavy doses of alcohol
cowered away in corners of the maze, whereas those given the extract with their alcohol behaved normally and were as inquisitive as rats given no alcohol at all, exploring the more open corridors of the maze.
You should enjoy life instead
of cower in fear.
These
dogs cower under the chair and may snap when the vet reaches for them.
If kitty is always hiding under your furniture, such
as cowering in a small opening under your couch, you've got an insecure cat.
«Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of
cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.»
Varga sat in Emmit's chair while Emmit
cowered on the other side of the room.
If you find your child
cowers when you raise your hand, this is a sign that they're fearful of you.
When I asked the panel about the trickiness inherent in covering sex work, a topic rife with controversy to this day, they didn't seem
cowered by the potential landmines.
While cowering underneath an awning with some fellow citizens, I overheard one of them say, «Only in New York!»
If you encounter a dog
who cowers away from you with his tail tucked between his legs, back off.
Dogs don't feel guilt; rather they display appeasing postures
like cowering, running away, or hiding when they feel threatened by an angry tone of voice, body posture, or facial expression.
Student Dylan Kraemer also was in Classroom 1214, when Cruz shot through the door as
children cowered behind a filing cabinet and their teacher's desk.
Just the mere stance of a German shepherd is already enough to make other dogs
cower into submission.
She will flinch and
cower if you raise your arms.
How is it that some dogs deal with these stimuli without batting an eye, while
others cower behind their owners with little or no apparent provocation?
THE smallest galaxy known has been
found cowering near the outskirts of the Milky Way.
Thank you for the beautiful photos while it's 11 degrees here and I'm
cowering over a space heater in my office!
The result is a brutal realm where you spend less time feeling empowered by mystical magics and more
time cowering in fear of them.
He has been attacked more times than I can remember and he
just cowers behind me.
My favorite addition to the game has been the nemesis system, as I
now cower in fear when the controller randomly starts to shake and the bells toll signaling a nemesis has entered the world.
But he was
still cowering at his desk like a whipped dog, and he wouldn't make eye contact with me.
Footage posted on social media showed
students cowering under desks in one classroom as gunshots rang out.
Otherwise, we've made no progress from the days when
people cowered in caves fearing the wrath of their pagan gods.
He might lower his body or
even cower on the ground.
While everyone knows of his womanizing ways, no - one would've suspected such an occurence and Devereaux is
left cowering and desperate, and feeling guilty that his lifestyle has led to such injustice.
There were plenty of other problems, though - did anyone else notice the «stone» pillar that Neeson and Zeta - Jones were
cowering against at the end of the film SQUISHED when Neeson put his weight on it to stand up??
She pointed to the first picture, where two
men cowered on the sand in the center of the group.
They took risks that would make
most cower in fear.
I built a website for a co living space chain in Chiang Mai, Bali and Mexico (I still think that's a cool idea) I started building something
for cowering adventures around the world (before it became big, but I gave up on it because it seemed so big and scary) and I had an SEO company back in Auckland.
In other words, Winstone isn't the first guy casting agents should want playing a career criminal who's reduced to
cowering meekly before the wiry, diminutive chap who played Gandhi.
He
also cowers away from facing the most compelling philosophical and scientific arguments these people and others make.
Swim through a park submerged under a swollen lake and
cower beneath a supercell storm cloud with these award - winning photos
I no
longer cower behind a towel in gym changing rooms, and the idea of baring all to a guy who I like is no longer a fear, but simply an exciting development in a relationship, as it should be.
Ordinarily, these sorts of games have your
character cowering behind overturned tables or under beds but Daylight offers a consumable management method of dealing with foes.
It sends him into panic mode and he spends the next two
days cowering in fear.
This is often a question I get from dog owners who have pretty much owned a dog who cared less about being approached by a friendly stranger and now is
cowering between the owner's legs.
Some members of the
group cower behind menus; others look out the window; some guzzle caffeine; at least one is furtively fingering a BlackBerry under the table.
Her eyes, outlined heavily in royal blue, peer out of her round face like a trapped
animal cowering in a cave.
After eight generations, his team was able to run open field tests — experiments during which the birds were put in a brightly - lit arena and assessed for how much time they
spent cowering on the periphery instead of strutting through the room.