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How to use shyly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shyly? Here are some examples.

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For a change this documentary did not have faceless people talking shyly with their faces blurred digitally.
They eye me shyly from the doorway before plucking up the courage to come in.
Many of the purses were handed to the Princess by children who curtsied shyly and shook hands.
They would have walked huddled, enamoured of each other's smell, holding hands and even kissing hurriedly and shyly in the twilight's cover.
He confirms this shyly, perhaps out of deference to his employer, who trained with White and later became his great rival.
He was smiling shyly for the camera and standing behind him was the golden-haired Joseph.
Bald, bespectacled and soft-spoken to a fault, he looks less hip than shyly professorial.
In Isis, a young girl with a small, sweet smile poses shyly in a short white dress, bobby socks and a wedding veil.
The other stocking waves shyly from its precarious perch atop a tilted lampshade.
The kid shyly thanked me for the compliment and then he continued jumping around.
I caught my first glimpses of wild rock wallaroos peering at us shyly from the safety of a rocky ledge.
He tried to cast a weak, faint smile at me, and confusedly, shyly, I lowered my eyes.
A dozen girls in ruffled skirts stand, shifting their weight from foot to foot, gazing shyly at their reflections in the mirror.
Near the end of the meal I looked up at my two brilliant companions and smiled sadly and shyly.
He grinned rather shyly at us, baring an impressive row of gold teeth, but clearly did not know what to do with the gadget.
Justin carefully took a familiar baseball cap out of his back pocket and shyly handed it to her.
Even she, on her fifth try for the presidency, has shyly brought her boyfriend to the fore.
I looked around the room and finally found this little mousy girl looking at my shyly.
She noticed me looking from the other side of the bar, smiled shyly and blushed, before sneaking another glance my way as she turned her back.
Little puffs of smoke drifted up from the table as we shyly learned to wield a soldering iron.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He talked of her and looked at her and spoke, masterfully and yet shyly, of being with her in New York.
With a heart too full for words the littler boy had pointed promptly but shyly at his candy cane.
The girl blushed and curtseyed, and said shyly that she hoped she always did her best to keep things neat and clean.
Jake rose shyly, knocking a Camembert to the ground in his embarrassment.
Nina and Jan, and a little girl named Lucie, kept shyly pointing out to me the shelves of glass jars.
Her hair did shine like glistering gold, and her eyes were like blue violets that peep out shyly at the sun.
She was silent for a moment and then she looked up at him shyly.
They consented to pray for him, some majestically, others shyly.
Then ulama glanced shyly at Templemore and clapped her hands.
And he is a chilly Londoner who does not endow his stations with some personality, and extend to them, however shyly, the emotions of fear and love.
I stole in very shyly, kept my eyes sternly from Nicolete's white bed, though, as I couldn't shut my ears, the sound of her breathing came to me with indescribable sweetness.
The man's eyes were big and staring as he examined the Scarecrow and the Patchwork Girl, and the children shyly hid behind him and peeked timidly at Toto.
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