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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:

I would have been too shy, or "buttoned down," to take that young girl's hand, and I would have been too absorbed with trivia to appreciate the things that made me so happy a few weeks ago.
Or it could mean that you're more than normally shy and insecure.
The New York Times and USA Today lead with the Dow's record close--a fraction of a point shy of 11,300.
And so Widdicombe, "a big, smart, opinionated woman" with two young sons, a sweet, shy husband who runs a newspaper delivery route, and a modest little pea green house in a nice neighborhood, begins, systematically, to break the law.
Even when women aren't combatants, they hardly shy away from the thought of war, or from its gore.