How to Use afraid for in a Sentence

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• Others in the room were afraid for my safety.
  — Beth Schaefer, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2025
• Lebron James is missing his wife — and isn't afraid for the world to know!
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023
• Now, afraid for her own life and for her son, she’s headed back to Colombia.
  — Matias J. Ocner, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
• The homeowner at the second house was afraid for his life, police said.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2025
• These messages made the victim afraid for her own safety and that of her family.
  — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2026
• Everyone is afraid for things to become elastic.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• Jamal himself was afraid for his life, says his sister, Bulbul.
  — Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• Since the killings, White said, her grandchildren have nightmares and are afraid for their own safety.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
• Friends and colleagues are afraid for their children’s education.
  — Jason Green, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
• Though many of the game workers and artists were queasy about this proliferation, and some were even afraid for their livelihoods, few spoke out.
  — Brian Merchant, WIRED, 23 July 2024
• Har says the guards did not harass anyone physically, but the captives were most afraid for the 17-year-old girl.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
• And the only way to address this sort of resentment is to assuage the fears of people who are afraid for their economic future.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2022
• The choice isn’t a binary between being afraid for one’s own personal safety or carrying on.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
• Timid and afraid for her son, Tungsupakul’s character serves as the film’s emotional center.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• His presence at Princeton makes students feel justifiably afraid for their safety.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• Popov claimed self-defense, with his lawyer describing him as a scared teenager afraid for his life, but the jury rejected that argument.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 July 2026
• And then with backgrounds in improv and documentaries, not being afraid for the story to unfold and not to interfere with it at all.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2025
• Flight crews have had to contend with overwork and disruptive and belligerent passengers, leaving them drained and afraid for their safety.
  — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• One Jewish mother, afraid for her infant son, bravely floated him down the Nile River in a basket.
  — Holly Rizzuto Palker, Parents, 17 Sep. 2023
• Mueller said the challenge is balancing preparation for and prevention of mass shootings without making schools a place where children are afraid for their safety.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2022
• Videos and images verified by The Washington Post show Russians are angry and afraid for their lives.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• Weston added that nearly three dozen other patients on the floor may have been afraid for their lives and had their medical treatment interrupted during the incident.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
• Advertisement Now with the tumor growing larger, Hightower and his family are afraid for his life.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Four members of the public spoke in favor of the proposal, including a landlord worried about how weapons are stored in her building and current and former teachers afraid for their students.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
• The brothers’ defense attorneys argued the brothers were afraid for their lives after experiencing years of abuse, especially at the hands of their father.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
• Both women give masterclasses in thinking on their feet, playing people in a desperate situation that are afraid for their lives, yet understanding.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
• Confused, angry, and afraid for Derrick’s safety, the Johnsons reported Anna to the police.
  — Lindsay Lee Wallace, TIME, 17 June 2024
• This week, Kim Kardashian testified in French court about the harrowing 2016 jewel heist that left her afraid for her life.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 14 May 2025
• Latanowich’s lawyer, Joseph Krowski, has said that Latanowich acted in self-defense and was afraid for his life because the officers were the aggressors.
  — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2021
• Pereda drew on her own experience as a gay teen, an outsider who changed schools frequently, becoming both a target for bullying and a silent witness to the torment of others, too afraid for her own survival to speak up.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2022