How to Use coward in a Sentence

coward

noun
  • That’s the sign of a true coward.
    — Maria Bamford, Vulture, 23 June 2026
  • Please do not take the coward’s way.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
  • And, in a way, this coward is the only sane one.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026
  • 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
  • Put beaks on the helmets, you cowards.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • But Democrats look like cowards for fleeing the state.
    — Nicole Russell, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Law enforcement does not go to war with cowards who break the law.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • And law enforcement does not go to war with cowards who break the law.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Scotchee is a coward and should live with that shame forever.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Like what, low-crawling out of town like a bunch of sniveling cowards?
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
  • But then Gi-hun could die looking down on him as both a dog and a coward.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • And Trump calls ’em almost like cowards.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 May 2026
  • And Trump calls ’em almost like cowards.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2026
  • To avoid reckoning with bigotry in beloved books is the coward's way out.
    — David M. Perry, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • He was called a coward, a traitor, a dupe, and an uppity N-word.
    — Jonathan Eig, Slate Magazine, 26 Sep. 2017
  • History will brand them as cowards and as traitors to the country’s best ideals.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Jan. 2018
  • In the end, these cowards are selling their soul for barely anything.
    — GQ, 11 Oct. 2017
  • So this coward had to fire from outside of the church, through the church windows and into the church.
    — Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Knowing that mainly kids would go to that concert what sought of coward would do something like that?
    — Andy Gensler, Billboard, 23 May 2017
  • Lake, for her part, has branded Hobbs a coward for not debating.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Face-to-face contact doesn’t register in the world of cheapskate cowards.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 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
  • Scot Peterson has been called a coward and worse for failing to stop the massacre.
    — CBS News, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Nora suffers the slings and arrows of Roxanne, who calls her a coward.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Instead, my grandfather was one of a long line of cowards and draft dodgers — and also, survivors.
    — Emily Meg Weinstein, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
  • One even called proponents of these bills cowards and outlined the many ways that these bills are harmful to his people.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2017

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