Sentence examples similar to I was coy from inspiring English sources

"Am I being coy by not naming names?

He's eager to hear all about it but I'm coy with the details – still embarrassed by how scared I'd been.

(They thought it was coy).

He was coy when I asked him in a corridor the other day if he would stand again.

Offensive coordinator Norm Chow was coy, saying, "I don't know why you're calling it the pistol.

"The problem I have, and this is maybe the reason why it seems like I'm being coy, is that I go out on a date and it ends up on Page Six," Booker says, referring to the fabled New York Post gossip column.

I could be coy and simply say I'm not going to tell you.

Later he wrote a second note: "I HATE being coy, but what am I supposed to do?

His answer was coy.

The German chancellor was coy.

Is she being coy or grief-stricken?