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How to use chicken-hearted in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word chicken-hearted? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Chicken-hearted people always feel that the other guy is either equally chicken-hearted or plain crazy.
It is incumbent upon me, as leader, to stamp out this sort of morale-sapping, chicken-hearted nonsense.
It is an unalloyed good, and it is sad to see our politicians responding with such chicken-hearted paranoia.
Obviously, David had noticed our unexpected visitors at the river and made for home as fast as his chicken-hearted legs could carry him.
It is very hard to be a Vajrayana practitioner with a timid, chicken-hearted attitude toward life.
These chicken-hearted bosses always seem to give in at the first sign of a strike.
Indeed, any sign of courtesy on our roads is taken as a sign of mental or moral weakness, a failure of the spirit, a lily-livered, chicken-hearted attempt to stay alive.
My point is that the movie, which is sometimes very funny in the usual zany, pop-surrealist sketch-comedy manner, is studiously inoffensive and thoroughly chicken-hearted.
We're beaky or tigerish, doe-eyed, raven-haired, foxy, chicken-hearted, slow as a tortoise, meek as a dove, sheepish, dogged, old goats, goosey, sitting ducks or vultures.
Even I, a chicken-hearted Americophile, get caught in the net as a potential terrorist and am interrogated for hours at airports.
Examples from Classical Literature
He is too chicken-hearted for that, or for anything else that requires pluck.
A coward is generally a bully, for he who is chicken-hearted may naturally be fowl-mouthed.
I can't imagine what is the matter with me to-day, I'm as chicken-hearted as a woman.
They are chicken-hearted fools, who will fight for neither side.
There is no use of being timid nor chicken-hearted in the present cause.
What a chicken-hearted fellow her father must have thought me!
Why, they turned out to be kind of chicken-hearted after all.
Say, you're not losing your nerve, you chicken-hearted rabbit, are you?
They're four-flushers, if you know what that means.I don't exactly hate them myself, but I haven't any regard for chicken-hearted four-flushers.
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