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Example sentences for: coyly

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You coyly ask permission to voice the heresy that formalism is overrated, as if we are writing in 1970 and you have something brave to say.
As for drugs, Matt Drudge reports today that the Dallas Morning News will have a story saying that Bush, coyly, has said he hasn't used drugs in the past seven years, the amount of time necessary for an FBI OK at the White House.
These are, no doubt, parochial concerns, but Brodkey always seemed to be deliberately provoking the puzzlement, coyly playing hide-and-seek with us.
Just a few days after the murder of their biggest-selling artist, Death Row Records couriered his last video, I Ain't Mad At Cha , to MTV, coyly suggesting the network might like to rush it into high rotation.
He was coyly gleeful about how lucky we are to toil in this chaos: to see the early snowdrops pushing up from the snow year after year or some flower graciously volunteering where you never would have been clever enough to plant it; or just to watch a couple of dragonflies having sex on a hot summer day.