How to Use coward in a Sentence

coward

noun
  • 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
  • He will be called a fascist and a coward and a dilettante.
    The Editors, National Review, 31 Oct. 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 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
  • The employees are spoiled and the investors are cowards.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • That’s when one coward hit me from behind with a backpack.
    Brie Stimson , Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • And Trump calls ’em almost like cowards.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Put beaks on the helmets, you cowards.
    Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • He and the cowards of Congress should be held accountable in the next election cycle.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The vandals came at night Tarring the asphalt with the coward’s color.
    Ken Burns, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2025
  • These guys are -- obviously cowards.
    Gail Zimmerman, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025

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