COY in a Sentence

Learn COY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for COY, such as:

1. She gave him a coy smile.
2. He is being neither coy nor subtle, he is courting his own distorted view of the truth.
3. Not as coy or uneasy lovers but as companions they walked to the boat, and he lifted her up on the prow.

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 Meanings and Examples of COY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
coy
 a.  quiet; still; tending to avoid people and social situations; reserved
Classic Sentence:
1  Racks of magazines, and pictures of coy fat prostitutes in striped bathing-suits.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Not as coy or uneasy lovers but as companions they walked to the boat, and he lifted her up on the prow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence:
1  He is being neither coy nor subtle, he is courting his own distorted view of the truth.
2  She gave him a coy smile.