SHY in a Sentence

Learn SHY 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.

112 example sentences for SHY, such as:

1. Once bit, twice shy.
2. He was too shy to speak to her.
3. The child was shy and hid behind his mother.
4. She played the role of a meek, innocent, shy girl.
5. She was very shy while she was in elementary school.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shy
 a.  timid; bashful; easily startled; distrustful
Classic Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
1  The name threw a chill between them, and they stood a moment looking sideways at each other before Mattie said with a shy laugh.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  It was a shy secret spot, full of the same dumb melancholy that Ethan felt in his heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  With her younger daughters, she had success, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings, and Carreen was shy and easily led.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  She wouldn't overlook a man of marriageable age, from ginger-whiskered old Frank Kennedy, who was Suellen's beau, on down to shy, quiet, blushing Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  As she did, a shy voice behind her called her name and, turning, she saw Charles Hamilton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Like most shy men he greatly admired airy, vivacious, always-at-ease girls like Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  She was naturally embarrassed and shy, and in agony lest they be overheard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  It was easy to see why he had been so shy, so unsophisticated, so idealistic.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  He was unfailingly courteous to her, but she was a little timid with him, largely because she was shy with any man she had not known from childhood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  Too happy to be shy and reserved, she hung on her husband's arm and adored him openly with her eyes, with her smiles, her tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  A little shy, now that the time had come to give it to him, she unrolled the package.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  Scarlett always permitted Wade to sit up late when Rhett called because the shy child was fond of him, and Rhett oddly enough seemed to be fond of Wade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  He flushed and grinned embarrassedly and in general looked like a shy and sheepish boy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  His heart was sore and bewildered at Suellen's conduct and his vanity, the shy, touchy vanity of a middle-aged bachelor who knows himself to be unattractive to women, was deeply wounded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  Little Wade was very fond of him, though the boy was shy of most people, and even called him "Uncle Rhett," which annoyed Frank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Although he's shy, it certainly hasn't impeded his career in any way.
2  According to Mandy, Pat's tough exterior hides a shy and sensitive soul.
3  The child was shy and hid behind his mother.
4  Once bit, twice shy.
5  She seemed rather aloof when in fact she was just shy.
6  She played the role of a meek, innocent, shy girl.
7  Her sociable manner is really a mask for a very shy nature.
8  They're shy animals and don't often come out in daylight.
9  She was very shy while she was in elementary school.
10  Alan sings with shy intensity, hiding behind the security blanket of his guitar.
11  At that age they can start becoming shy with the opposite sex.
12  Employees are urged not to be shy about reporting incidents of sexual harassment.
13  She is slim and shy - the very antithesis of her sister.
14  He was too shy to speak to her.
15  Before this course I'd always fought shy of technology.