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Example sentences for: shy

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Strong evidence is, after all, strong evidence, even when it's a little shy of overwhelming.
This is not a subtle point, and it is certainly not one that Republicans have ever been shy about expressing.
As a group, molecular biologists shy away from teleological matters, perhaps because early attitudes in molecular biology were shaped by physicists and chemists.
We were all her friends, Maggie, and Bill, and Anne,And I, and the nice Boston Brahmin elderly manNamed Duncan, utterly friendly and benign.And of course it wasn't whether or not the worldWas benign but whether it looked at her too much.She wasn't 'painfully shy' but just the same I wouldn't be surprised if there had beenPainfulness in her shyness earlier on,Say at dancing school.
The earlier inhabitants, the shy Mesolithic tribes and the mysterious Picts, vanished for ever into the moorland mists before the invaders.