Example sentences for: sheepish

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

  • Hunter angrily towers over the sheepish singer, who looks like nothing so much as a boy who had just been caught by his mother stuffing a Tootsie Roll into the VCR.

  • Whenever someone criticized him, Forbes looked sheepish and guilty, like a kid caught stealing cookies.

  • When we reversed course 10 months later, Kinsley was duly sheepish.

  • "We're sheepish about posting prices," says a dealer I know at a high-end SoHo gallery.

  • Brown's successor at The New Yorker , David Remnick, is criticized for being "weak on the buzz factor," "sheepish" about courting fashion designers, and addicted to "earnest seriousness."


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