Example sentences for: coy

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

  • 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.

  • Not a word, though, in the "newspaper of record," the Times . And the Washington Post buried a coy discussion of the British coverage in the back half of a barely related article about columnists turning against Clinton.

  • MoMA's coy refusal to identify the subjects of the portraits (wall panels give title, date, and medium) suggests that their identities don't matter, even while first-name titles imply that they do--that intimacies are being explored and revealed.

  • Of course, Morales was merely explicit where other AGs prefer to be coy.


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