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How to use bashfully in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
The grandchildren hover close by, whispering and squirming bashfully if my glance falls upon them.
He caught up with me later in the afternoon and pressed a blank tape into my hand and bashfully asked if I could make him a copy of it.
Around the room angry glares were thrown at Josh who responded by smiling bashfully and trying to shrink against the window pane behind him.
The bathroom was a chemical loo in a tiny separate tent or, Aaron bashfully suggested, the great outdoors.
Halfpenny's mother, who paid for her daughter's ballet lessons when she was a child, ran onstage to give her a hug but bashfully turned back before the cameras.
When I credit her for discovering Jennifer Lawrence in casting her as Ree Dolly, she smiles bashfully, before backpedaling a bit.
But as Bill praised the service at a ceremony outside The Lowry centre, Katie, who was waiting for her turn to speak, pulled faces and smiled bashfully at the audience.
And, of course, it is best to drive at no more than 60 miles per hour something that your correspondent, bashfully, cannot commit to.
Though we have striven to uphold these ideas, we've done so covertly and sometimes bashfully.
One visitor, a 40-something Adidas-tracksuited man, bashfully discussed his own stencilling ideas.
He came back to Sofia and bashfully inquired if the offer was still open.
Although he was involved in hospital radio before that, he bashfully explains that his shows were never broadcast because the transmitter was broken.
The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant.
Examples from Classical Literature
The charge was so outrageous that the steward for all answer only dropped his eyelids bashfully.
Dennin shuffled his feet on the barrel, looked down bashfully like a man making his maiden speech, and cleared his throat.
They looked up at me bashfully and made some request of their mother.
Rosa obeyed, for the Prince was fixing his eyes upon her, but he had scarcely turned them again to his paper when she bashfully retired to the door.
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