Synonym: bashful, coy, demure, timid. Antonym: bold. Similar words: shyness. Meaning: [ʃaɪ] n. a quick throw. v. 1. start suddenly, as from fight 2. throw quickly. adj. 1. lacking self-confidence 2. easily startled or frightened 3. short 4. wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things.
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91) Children often fight shy of dentists.
92) I was a bit shy of them at first.
93) We've plenty of wine, but we're shy on beer.
94) Paulo's very shy - he needs bringing out.
95) She is very shy and does not mingle with the children at school.
95) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
96) I like the girls who are shy and stand off.
97) She's so shy that conversing with her can be quite difficult.
98) He was shy and nervous as a boy, and unhappy at school.
99) He used to be very shy, but now he's gone to the opposite extreme .
100) Jenny certainly won't go to swimming — once bitten, twice shy.
101) Suddenly shy, our young daughter burrowed her head into my shoulder.
102) He's too shy to ask a stranger the time, still less speak to a roomful of people.
103) Asian women are more modest and shy, yet they tend to have an inner force.
104) Contrary to popular belief , gorillas are basically shy, gentle creatures.
105) He disliked her and had never been shy of saying so.
106) Jaguar sold 21 000 cars in the US last year(sentencedict.com), well shy of the 82 000 sold by Mercedes.
107) You should not be shy of having your say in the running of the school.
108) He's too shy to ask a stranger the time, still less speak to a room full of people.
109) The long and the short of it is, he wanted to use your bike for a day or two, but was too shy to say so.
110) I was shy, and felt intimidated by the older students.
111) My abiding memory of our first meeting is of a girl too shy to talk.
112) According to Mandy, Pat's tough exterior hides a shy and sensitive soul.
113) She was a shy, delicately pretty girl with enormous blue eyes.
114) He died before Christmas, only a month shy of his 90th birthday.
115) She's a shy girl who needs friends to bring her out of herself.
116) Though best known for the funny and outspoken roles that she plays on screen, offstage she is shy and rather serious.
117) There's a lot of traffic on the road - I'm sure my horse is going to shy.
118) I didn't think he was unfriendly. I put him down as shy.
119) Inarticulate and rather shy, he had always dreaded speaking in public.
120) He was too shy to come sit by me in class.
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