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Example sentences for: shy

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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.
The New York Times and USA Today lead with the Dow's record close--a fraction of a point shy of 11,300.
It seems fair to say that, in part as a result of our experience with television, we tend to shy away from making grandiose claims for new technologies anymore.
Even promoters of the concept shy away from the label.
Tung's fellow businessmen have not been shy about taking him up on his new offer.