The longer we put off feeling sorrow, the greater our fear of it becomes.

The fear of heights had suddenly become very minor.

Such fear can become, in effect, addictive, and therefore hard to shake.

The fear was there, too, but becoming more manageable with each moment's passing.

The farther north he walked, the larger the fear became.

With a fear gradually becoming more definite, he sat listening for a few moments.

At once, her fear changed directions, became fear for him.

It was afraid, now, and the greater its fear became, the weaker its control over him would become.

I know that this fear has become what you might call 'trendy'.

And by the film's end, her worst fears about the power of trees have become brutally real.