Sentence for shy | Use shy in a sentence

A sentence for the word shy. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use shy in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for shy.

  • She was a shy violet. (10)
  • Violets, shy violets! (10)
  • Nothing ever made me nervous or shy. (21)
  • Lucy shook her head, looking sly and shy. (10)
  • She is mild and shy, and extremely gentle. (10)
  • She is mild and shy, and extremely gentle. (22)
  • At this she could not withhold a shy laugh. (10)
  • He would be shy at an offer of one from me. (10)
  • Mr. Raikes was rather shy of them at first. (10)
  • Sweet are the shy recesses of the woodland. (10)
  • Did they look frightened, or shy, or fierce, or what? (8)
  • Her brother knew them well enough to shy at the box. (10)
  • It deepened; shy neither smiled nor rattled any more. (10)
  • What he said was didactic or shy, or sudden and heated. (12)
  • When he returned she was in the hall, very flushed and shy. (8)
  • He alluded to experiences of his own that had made him shy. (12)
  • One gets up a sympathy for the poor shy dependent shivering lover. (10)
  • Hence her circles about the dangerous human flame are wide and shy. (10)
  • She was a little intimidated, and for the moment seemed shy and girlish. (10)
  • Dedications, those shy birds, came fluttering about Lowell in these days. (14)
  • What made you so shy of me, when you first called, and afterwards dined here? (4)
  • Shy as himself, their shyness took other forms, and developed with warm youth. (10)
  • Probably she is shy of speaking French; she frequently puts the Italian accent. (10)
  • He pictured to himself hopefully, moreover, that she would be shy when they met. (10)
  • Pearse led us towards the house, Pasiance following mortally shy all of a sudden. (8)
  • When I first saw Derek I thought I should never feel anything but shy and hopeless. (8)
  • Definition seemed to be an extirpation enemy of this idea, or she was by nature shy. (10)
  • Month when mosses near the stream, Soft green mosses thick and shy, Are a rapture and a dream. (10)
  • Frederica looked so shy, so confused, when we entered the room, that I felt for her exceedingly. (4)
  • Schumann was shy and reserved by nature, he talked little but observed and reflected abundantly. (3)
  • Would they have let the lads of Andernach float down cabbage-stalks to them without a shy back? (10)
  • Once on the way their hands touched, and he felt a shy pressure from her fingers as they parted. (10)
  • It was hard to associate with the man as one saw him, still, shy, stiff, the passion of his verse. (9)
  • She hinted at family reasons for being shy of him, assuring me that I was not implicated in them. (10)
  • She listened, and another little beginning was heard, timorous, shy, and full of mystery for her. (10)
  • She slid a look at him which might have meant nothing or meant much, so perfect its shy stolidity. (8)
  • Then she saw him smile; it made his face all eager, yet left it shy; and she decided that he was nice. (8)
  • Vernon walked straight up to them: an act unusual with him, for he was shy of committing an intrusion. (10)
  • Her inspection of the contents had previously been shy; she had just enough to tell her they were funny. (10)
  • She was shy in speaking of the love-stricken woman, and more was in his mind for thought than for speech. (10)
  • It was very different with Holly, soft and quiet, shy and affectionate, with a playful imp in her somewhere. (8)
  • The young artist found his host extremely new and disconcerting; in his presence he felt both shy and awkward. (8)
  • He looked a very shy person till he spoke, and then you found that he was not in the least shy. (9)
  • He himself saw little of the young mothers; shy of them, secretly afraid, perhaps, of not being censorious enough. (8)
  • Mr. George was certain that he had not been fighting shy of the fair Carrington of late, nor had he been unfaithful. (10)
  • Then, with a long, shy look he saw his mother, in a blue dress, with a blue motor scarf over her cap and hair, smiling. (8)
  • And, blossom and all, she clasped her hands over her breast, where again her heart quivered with that faint, shy tremor. (8)
  • His hazel-coloured eyes were shy, gentle, and deep-set; his eyebrows, hardly ever still, gave him a look of austere whimsicality. (8)
  • He lighted his pipe, and from the depths of his easychair, invited my shy youth to all the ease it was capable of in his presence. (9)
  • Aminta nodded and smiled, and Selina kissed her hand in joy, saying, that down home she would not be so shy of calling her Aminta. (10)
  • I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. (4)
  • After breakfast at an inn, where a waiter laughed at us to our faces, and we fed scowling, shy, and hungry, we had another quarrel. (10)
  • Almost it let the sound elude, When chuckles three, a warble shy, From hazels of the garden came, Near by the crimson-windowed farm. (10)
  • All round the shadowy orchard sloped meadows in gold, and the dear Shy violets breathed their hearts out: the maiden breath of the year! (10)
  • But drawing near, he wondered if they would like him, a stranger, to come into their splashing group; he felt shy, approaching that slim nymph. (8)
  • That face was not regular; its cheek-bones were rather prominent, the nose was flattish; there was about it an air, innocent, reflecting, quizzical, shy. (8)

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