Timidly

//ˈtɪmɪdli//

"Timidly" in a Sentence (10 examples)

"Y-You OK? Not hurt?", I enquire timidly. "Ah, no, I'm fine."

Tom approached timidly.

He who asks timidly invites a refusal.

Yanni timidly crawled from under the bed.

I timidly opened the door.

He timidly put up his hand.

Vladimir answered timidly.

At high-school he had been known as “the poet-laureate of room sixteen,” a title invented by snickering pupils, and his timidly mystic lyrics about sandpipers, violets, and the embracing glee of the sun, had gained an unrestrained admiration from his English teachers.

His mother o'er her barm-cloth wide / Gazed forward somewhat timidly / The new-comer's bright weed to see.

The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs.

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