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Example sentences for: shy

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

Be seedy, ye effigy, at shy Jake.
Smiling readily but somewhat shy about making the first approach, the islanders will often overwhelm you with kindness once contact is made.
Carey gives us the flawed, utterly romantic anti-hero of high Victorian fiction--absurdly tall, absurdly shy, absurdly proud, absurdly trusting, Maggs is a sighted Edward Rochester, a kinder Heathcliff.
"It's part of an internal Kellogg's campaign to motivate shy Rice Crispies."
Prudie thinks this woman is one sandwich shy of a picnic.