Sentences with 'intimidated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word intimidated and other words derived from it.
• « From 1922 to 1926 Mussolini and the Fascists manipulated the Italian parliament, intimidated political opponents or even had them assassinated, and finally succeeded in eliminating party politics and the free press. »
• « Others have been less benevolent. In Cambridge academic circles, where Hawking cultivated an image of "difficult genius" and where his contemporaries were sometimes so intimidated by him that they could not bring themselves to buy him a beer, some mistook his attitude for arrogance and a spirit of contradiction. »
• « In the ensuing scuffle, some soldiers, egged on by the mob that intimidated them as "lobster backs" (the lobster reference equated the soldiers with bottom feeders, i.e., aquatic animals that feed on the lowest organisms in the food chain), fired into the crowd, killing five people. »