Example sentences for: coyly

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

  • The setting, however, strikes a coyly sultry note.

  • These are, no doubt, parochial concerns, but Brodkey always seemed to be deliberately provoking the puzzlement, coyly playing hide-and-seek with us.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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