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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:

Editorialists applauded his candor but dismissed him as timid and naive.
How can it be that these two identities--bold, reckless pursuer of bliss and timid, desperate pursuer of office--exist in the same man?
Critics attack PBS's timid refusal to air More Tales , even though the 1994 original was one of its highest rated programs ever.
So the Bill Clinton paradox--his reckless pursuit of sex and his timid clinging to office--is indeed no paradox.
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.