TIMOROUS in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for TIMOROUS, such as:

1. Darya Alexandrovna whispered timorously.
2. He was the most timorous person in that event.
3. His timorous manner betrayed the fear he felt at the moment.
4. She crept back to her room, a small timorous figure in white.
5. He waited in timorous silence to hear what Heron might say next.

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 Meanings and Examples of TIMOROUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
timorous
 a.  fearful; demonstrating fear; weakly hesitant
Classic Sentence:
1  Melanie, however, did not seem to mind the smells, the wounds or the nakedness, which Scarlett thought strange in one who was the most timorous and modest of women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  She crept back to her room, a small timorous figure in white.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  Carol had hidden in none of these refuges from reality, but she, who was tender and merry, had been made timorous by Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  But if there happen to be an unduly slender, clumsy, or timorous wight in the ship, that wight is certain to be made a ship-keeper.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
5  He waited in timorous silence to hear what Heron might say next.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  The workmen's discussions, he said, were too timorous; the interest they took in the question of wages was inordinate.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
7  I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  'She had been summat timorous and down,' said Mr. Peggotty, and had sat, at first, a little way off, at her spinning, or such work as it was, when Em'ly talked to the children.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
9  Every moment will see her growing timorous and confused lest she be saying too much.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
10  Prissy climbed reluctantly from the wagon with many groans and timorously followed Scarlett up the avenue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  Uncle Peter feared him only a little less than the devil or the Ku Klux and even Mammy walked silently and timorously around him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  Darya Alexandrovna whispered timorously.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 12
13  Brittles obeyed; the group, peeping timorously over each other's shoulders, beheld no more formidable object than poor little Oliver Twist, speechless and exhausted, who raised his heavy eyes, and mutely solicited their compassion.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  Anna Sergyevna gave him some drink, not taking off her glove, and drawing her breath timorously.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  He was the most timorous person in that event.
2  Some delegates believe the final declaration is likely to be too timorous.
3  His timorous manner betrayed the fear he felt at the moment.