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How to use bashful in a sentence

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They hope to draw in more bashful youngsters with modern features including up-to-date chart music and videos as well as animation.
Collina's famously piercing gaze uncharacteristically drops away, almost bashful at being reminded of the compliment.
The popular children's story is about an affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur who befriends a spider named Charlotte.
He's also not bashful about experimenting with them while recording, which makes for some pretty funny gaffes.
Ever bashful, Rolf bounded towards the dais and whispered instructions in Howard's shell-like, believing he was the house pianist.
I think, all evidence to the contrary, she was pleasantly surprised when I turned out to be a studious, introverted, bashful child.
A succession of handsome but bashful doe-eyed waiters brought over from Italy compounded our love for this place.
I noticed a flush on Angie's cheek as Christopher smiled, bashful but reserved.
If you go and you're kind of acting bashful and you don't belong, I think people can spot that on you.
In scene one, Edie, the make-believe cheerleader, queens it over bashful high-school boy Tom.
I told him I thought he looked pretty good considering, but he was bashful and said he thought he looked pretty bad.
But Mr Desmond is not known for being particularly image-conscious or bashful.
I will always remember the look of bashful happiness on Arthur's face as people in the audience constantly called out his name.
His attractive features had caught her off guard, leaving her tongue-tied and bashful.
Quite funny how this brash and loud student totally changed when he got to meet his hero and started acting all bashful.
Don't be bashful guys, I put the board there for all of us so don't wait for me.
The staff are very approachable and we let more bashful people wander around to avoid embarrassment unless they ask us.
Once there, her life begins, from crawling to walking, through playful child, bashful teenager, lover and mother, into old age.
School sports are not for the bashful, and privacy expectations are limited.
Barbara was a very, very gentle person, but she was not bashful about expressing her point of view.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Nanna grasped the hands held out to her, hanging her head on one side, and smiling her tremorous, bashful smile.
She had also the bashful nose that appears to retreat from the lip with the unmistakable curve of the kelt.
There was candy for the children, gum for the bashful maiden, soda pop for the frivolous young.
The boss thrust the goad into the hand of the bashful fellow.
He patted her back soothingly, and finding that she was recovering, followed it up by a bashful kiss or two, which brought Jo round at once.
Oh, if you're bashful, and dread being intrusive, you need only commission me.
But, I fancy, it is many, many years ago since he was bashful.
She looked down as she said this, amiably bashful, with only one side glance at her companion to observe its effect on her.
She hesitated in a funny, bashful manner which roused my interest.
They are extreme modest and bashful, very shy, and nice of being touchd.
He hesitated, awkward and bashful, shifted his weight from one leg to the other, then blunderingly gripped my hand in a hearty shake.
I 'lowed then that 'twas a bashful child I had lured with my sad melody.
The trouble was that in this Arcadian phase of my history, I, who had come through, case-hardened, from the other side of life, was timid and bashful.
Then Little Toomai covered his face with his hands, for he was only a child, and except where elephants were concerned, he was just as bashful as a child could be.
Our bashful fears, our silent interjections, our blushes, as we met each other's eyes, were expressive with an eloquence, a boyish charm, which I have ceased to feel.
The little fellow, who was holding her apron, gave such a lusty shout, that the sound of it made him bashful, and he buried his face in her skirts, to her great admiration.
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