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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:

The post-game analysis: 1) They're very shy.
This is not a subtle point, and it is certainly not one that Republicans have ever been shy about expressing.
Mr. Gleick fights shy of this big question.
An article attempts to explain William Shawn, the late, lamented, longtime editor of The New Yorker . The painfully shy Shawn once declined an honorary degree from Yale because of his fear of crowds.
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.