How to Use coward in a Sentence

coward

noun

• But the nephew goes beyond that — not just labeling his uncle a sore loser, but also, in a sense, a coward.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• So be brave and be honest, and watch the cowards fall in your wake.
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 1 Nov. 2017
• Cowards daubed swastikas on her car and in the lift in her apartment block.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2017
• These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one.
  — Matt Ford, The Atlantic, 18 July 2016
• But the award for the NRA coward of the week goes to the Georgia legislature.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Give us the win, you cowards! ’Tis the season for shopping.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• And law enforcement does not go to war with cowards who break the law.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2019
• The first is the idea the idea that school shooters are cowards who would melt away in the presence of an armed teacher.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Matthew Yglesias: One in three is a great coward’s call.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
• He was called a coward, a traitor, a dupe, and an uppity N-word.
  — Jonathan Eig, Slate Magazine, 26 Sep. 2017
• Law enforcement does not go to war with cowards who break the law.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• The cowards cut the statue off at the ankles, leaving nothing but two shoes on a base the shape of home plate.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• Like what, low-crawling out of town like a bunch of sniveling cowards?
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
• Cast Laverne Cox in the next Marvel movie, you cowards.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 7 May 2019
• Women who play nice with their abusers are not cowards.
  — Jessica Knoll, The Cut, 17 Oct. 2017
• Scotchee is a coward and should live with that shame forever.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• But here's the thing: Most of you mayonnaise haters out there are hypocrites and cowards.
  — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 4 July 2019
• History will brand them as cowards and as traitors to the country’s best ideals.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Jan. 2018
• To avoid reckoning with bigotry in beloved books is the coward's way out.
  — David M. Perry, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
• Heroes die, and then someone else tells their story, but the cowards and draft dodgers live to tell their own.
  — Emily Meg Weinstein, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
• Scot Peterson has been called a coward and worse for failing to stop the massacre.
  — CBS News, 27 Feb. 2018
• In the end, these cowards are selling their soul for barely anything.
  — GQ, 11 Oct. 2017
• 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.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 17 May 2017
• If Democrats back out of impeachment, they will be scorned by the base as a bunch of simpering cowards.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 26 Nov. 2019
• 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?
  — Lydia Millet, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
• Nora suffers the slings and arrows of Roxanne, who calls her a coward.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• Varga, the coward, hangs back in the elevator while the army checks out the storage hallway.
  — Zane Moses, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2017
• Face-to-face contact doesn’t register in the world of cheapskate cowards.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
• Lake, for her part, has branded Hobbs a coward for not debating.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
• Democrats who fund the campaigns of election deniers are no better than the cowards and bootlickers described in that book.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 12 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024