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Example sentences for: shy

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Likewise, he's entitled to appear shy or unfriendly around her, and perhaps unintentionally hamper her ability to network inside the company, and even then assume she lacks initiative and give her a mediocre job evaluation.
As for the shy advice-seeker worried "about the possibility of having to kiss a girl," Prudence replied, "If that situation arises, you will have no problem.
The film follows a well-hung stud in the Los Angeles porn-flick industry, and it doesn't shy away from recounting his lewder adventures.
There's a revealing moment in The History of the Siege of Lisbon , when the shy proofreader hero, a bachelor in his 50s, is working at home.
The puzzling decision to relegate the painter of sun-drenched tablecloths and rainbow gardens to the underground makes some sense given the direction and drift of the show, the third MoMA retrospective of Bonnard's work since his death just shy of age 80 in 1947.