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Example sentences for: shying

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Some 30 years later, the Annunciation triptych of Simone Martini, with Mary shying away from archangel Gabriel, has the characteristic elegance and poetry of his Siena school.
The leather eye-patches sewn to the sides of the halter ( blinders in America and blinkers in England) keep a horse from shying by narrowing vision to the road directly ahead, the sense implied when we say that someone does something with blinders on or has a blinkered viewpoint.
These similarities suggest that the Latin American researchers are not shying away from the two top-ranked general science journals.