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How to use timid in a sentence

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If you appear stiff, reserved, timid and insecure, they will feel repulsed.
He was just pouring himself another cup of coffee when there was a timid knock on the door.
We were timid children, and the world we inhabited was too harsh, too angry with itself, but too scared to push the button.
But he was an extremely timid man and all he did was to stay by her side and prevent her from going out.
Zidane, and those close to him, claim that he rarely speaks because he is a naturally timid and modest person.
Eventually they managed to track down frozen varieties of fish, which were fed to the timid bird in a bowl of salted water.
His answer spilled timid and trembling from his frightened lips, a trickle of stuttering feebleness.
The plot just requires him to be a meek, timid guy next door who believes in following the rules.
Once inside, things simply got worse for any shy, timid souls who plucked up the courage and made it past the front door.
Yet he is a keen sighted and extraordinary man, gentle I think by nature and at once timid, modest and reticent.
As in all sensitive and generous souls, people born into this sign can seem rather meek and timid.
The central development of Cromwell from a timid toady to a towering tyrant is well depicted.
The party that once bestrode British politics like a colossus has arrived on the Lancashire coast in timid, uncertain mood.
On a timid, tremulous performance of REM's Everybody Hurts, she sounds like a reticent schoolgirl suddenly asked to perform at Live Aid.
The two timid trysters head off to the seashore to find an appropriate way to express their unspoken love.
There were timid deer and huge morocoys that moved with prehistoric slow motion.
The Warren brothers snickered, amused by the sight of their strict teacher suddenly turned into a timid mouse.
Hanks' fatal miscasting and timid performance unbalances a film that is already too careful to thrill.
The timid knock on the door could only be one person, his mousy but efficient secretary trying to get his attention.
The dozen or so timid beasts looped about uncaring of the darkness that dominated the planet.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Nogai women are very timid, for the jealousy of their husbands is extreme.
She was pretty and sweet-tempered, but timid and without energy of character.
Our passage across the Arabian Sea was as smooth as the most timid of navigators could desire.
This pale, beetle-browed lady ought to have enjoined those to be timid who know how.
Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse!
Now and then our crew of clean-limbed Tonga boys rested on their oars, with timid, limpid gaze turned askance.
Who is like unto him in stalking the timid doe and in crippling the fleeing boar?
The quavering voice of Durrell had convinced his friends that he was as timid as any of them in the presence of real danger.
A timid reserve followed the first entrancement, but it was the struggle of respect, of honour against a fatal passion.
She was a fair-haired girl, gentle and timid, and was pre-destined for misfortune.
The more timid party still clung to the friendly society in the Strand, and there held a second exhibition.
He has an utter contempt for dull men and timid or half-measure men, and he scorns Whigs even more than Tories.
Shy and timid, the hartebeest moved along in herds seldom exceeding ten in number, ever led by some old and cautious buck.
He thought them too slow, too timid, too small-minded to rescue France from the precipice.
The ursine baboon is not naturally pugnacious, but neither is he timid or destitute of the means of defence.
The most free and ruddy and brave of his pages are juxtaposed with some of the most soft and timid.
A timber wolf, especially a solitary timber wolf, was a timid thing, yet this one feared neither man nor fire.
The timid feared hasty acting would precipitate the marshaling of the waverers under the same flag.
Through these the timid Awakening spirit lifts its head like the first trillium of the year.
By such means even the most incompetent and unadventurous and timid spirits may pass judgment upon all men.
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