Example sentences for: coy

How can you use “coy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sure the big companies are more coy in their pitches--the Hall's Zinc Defense box says zinc "may" relieve cold symptoms and, in small print, denies making any claim to treating a health condition--but that only makes the sham more effective.

  • The Post suggested that Bush may have "created the impression with voters that he is being cute or coy rather than forthcoming."

  • Around Guilin, you’ll find caves of every size and mood — gloomy, inspiring, immense, or coy.

  • One particularly outrageous example of a coy euphemism crops up in Diane Johnson's The State of the Language.

  • Despite the coy labeling, this information could come from only one of two places: someone's imagination or Starr's office.


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