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"Shy" in a Sentence (32 examples)
She was very shy about her emergency problem, and asked the gynecologist to please examine her.
Don't be shy about talking to the teacher; if you don't understand, use some initiative!
Generally, Japanese people are shy.
Bob was shy when he was a high school student.
He's very shy. He says he wants to see you.
Nancy is more shy than reserved.
Tom was too shy to take part in games with the other boys.
I guess that the beautiful girl will say goodbye to the shy young man.
The shy pupil murmured his answer.
The shy boy murmured his name.
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The horses of the army, and those of the royal stables, having been daily led before me, were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.
He is very shy with strangers.
VVhat makes you ſo ſhy of late, my good Friend? There's no Body loves you better than I, nor has taken more Pains in your Affairs: […]
Graham Norton: But the people coming up to you now, like the Americans, well, you know, the Americans, they're not shy, the Americans. / Maggie Smith: No. Well, no but I don't go anywhere where really they can get at me. It's usually in museums and art galleries and things, so that limits things. I keep away from there, and Harrod's I don't go near.
We grant, although he had much wit, / H' was very shy of using it; / As being loth to wear it out, / And therefore bore it not about,
Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.
[…] I am very ſhy of building any thing of moment upon foundations that I eſteem ſo unſure, […]
By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount.
It is just shy of a mile from here to their house.
The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.
United move seventh - still six points off a Champions League place and a massive 16 shy of the lead held by rivals Manchester City.
Pollsters need to remember the shy Tory factor.
Courts might tend to shy from limiting Congress under such a vague standard.
The horse shied at the unexpected approach of a motor vehicle.
to shy a stone
shy a slipper
Then two or three boys laughed and sneered, and a big brutal fellow, who was standing in the middle of the room, picked up a slipper, and shied it at the kneeling boy, calling him a snivelling young shaver.
"I was thinking, sir," I answered, "that I should like to shy the Diamond into the quicksand, and settle the question in that way."
Foker discharged a prodigious bouquet at her, and even Smirke made a feeble shy with a rose, and blushed dreadfully when it fell into the pit
If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy.
coconut shy
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