verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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If you see the audience cowering back , you are too loud.
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Dougal cowered back , praying that no one would hear it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They were cowering in the cellars, trapped by the shelling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her fragile sanity crept away from the edge to cower inside the fortress of her orders.
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Miriam cowered in terror, her hand up to her throat.
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Students cowered in classrooms as the gun shots rang out.
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The dailies would clock him every now and then, leaving his flat and cowering under a flash of camera light.
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While the menace may be unstoppable, infection-control doctors are not cowering helplessly.