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Example sentences for: timid

How can you use “timid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I like to think that I'm as timid as any other member of the cultured folk, but my greatest fear is public speaking.
Someone has also wound up the Jack Kemp doll, which declares the 10 percent proposal "timid and pitiful."
Your portrait of Japan is funny, but if they were really as timid and mingy as you suggest, they wouldn't be so healthy and long-lived.
Bradley thinks Gore is running on a timid platform designed to avoid political heat rather than to solve problems.
The Radicals, who favored the abolition of slavery and supported black suffrage, despised Johnson for his timid plans for readmitting the South to the Union after the Civil War.