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.

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

  • There are coy captions: "Was this the face that launched a thousand subpoenas?"

  • 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.

  • 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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