Example collocations logo

Timidly in sentence

74 examples of Timidly in a sentence

Timidly, we've been higher on the diagonal in other situations, but it's okay.
Jonah looks up timidly and shakes his head.
There's a moment when saintly Jones is tempted into taking some treasures just for herself and she timidly starts stuffing her pockets that is an unintended hoot.
The theme of inter-species respect and co-operation ventures timidly into the forbidden world of inter-species love, but its approach is stereotypical, indicating a lack of understanding of the behavior motives of either species.
I saw this film at a time when I was timidly toying with the idea of moving into my own apartment and starting life on my own.
The paper’s central premise was that Japan’s monetary and fiscal authorities had erred mainly by acting too timidly.
We will not timidly look around and lose our way; we will not turn back.
Humbled and humiliated, the Court has acted timidly since.
Only some stalwarts timidly point to the inflammatory question posed by Mack the Knife in Berthold Brecht’s Threepenny Opera: “What is a bank robbery compared to the founding of a bank?
While we criticize the “capitalistic robber barons” of America because they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our welfare states.
'Come, Sasha, don't he angry,' he said, smiling timidly and tenderly.
Kitty was silent a moment, looking timidly and pitifully at her husband, then she approached and took hold of his elbow with both hands.
'I don't consider that I have a right to refuse,' he said timidly, raising his eyes.
I do not and cannot enter into details,' she added, looking timidly into his gloomy face.
I have lived through sufferings and terrors, but for a long time past – especially since we came here – I have been happy!...' she said, looking at Dolly timidly and with a questioning smile.
'I thought – on the contrary,' said Dolly timidly.
Please excuse me!' he said, speaking as to a stranger; but, recognizing Levin, he smiled timidly.
'Well, how is Annie?' he asked timidly, looking up at Anna as she ran down to him.
Levin asked timidly, having quite forgotten that the fantasia presented King Lear on the heath.
That is a great step and a sign of power!''But it's not a question of sacrificing themselves only, but of killing Turks,' remarked Levin timidly.
Kitty's wet and rosy face was turned to him, timidly smiling beneath her bedraggled hat.
She recoiled timidly but she did not leave, resolved to see how things would turn out.
Here and there chrysanthemums sprouted timidly at the feet of aloes with long, sad, sickly leaves.
"My c-a-p," timidly said the "new fellow," casting troubled looks round him.
When Madam Bovary had gone, he tried timidly and in the same terms to hazard one or two of the more anodyne observations he had heard from his mamma.
If Charles timidly ventured a remark, she answered roughly that it wasn't her fault.
I save nothing out of my stipend, gentlemen, and that may be why I am less alarmed when people speak of taking it from me.'M. de Renal lived on excellent terms with his wife; but not knowing what answer to make to the question, which she timidly repeated: 'What harm can this gentleman from Paris do to the prisoners?' he was just about to lose his temper altogether when she uttered a cry.
'Monseigneur,' he replied timidly.
'Well, my friend, aren't you going?''You see, Sir, they say,' Julien began timidly, 'that during your long administration here, you have never put anything aside.
As Saint-Giraud kept on repeating that it was impossible to live in the provinces, Julien timidly cited the example of M. de Renal.
Next