Timid in example sentence

The reason is simple: the much-maligned state was permitted to pursue only timid policy responses.

More example sentences with word timid

So, the first one I was very timid, and I'll begin.

You go ahead and sit back in your comfortable chair and you be the critic, you be the observer, while the brave one gets in the ring and engages and gets bloody and gets dirty and fails over and over and over again, but yet isn't afraid and isn't timid and lives life in a bold way."

They were timid, and somewhere along the line, the natural order was reversed.

Now, I'm not saying your girls must be firefighters or that they should be paragliders, but I am saying that we are raising our girls to be timid, even helpless, and it begins when we caution them against physical risk.

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