Sentence examples for a timid request from inspiring English sources

A timid request to speak to the landlord was met with a curt reply: "He's in bed, drunk .But the main reason why people stay is that they want to.

There were multiple pleas for spectators to raise their hands during the bridge of "Dead End Love," and a timid request to take their picture (below right) after "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea".

The comic highlight of the play is the delicious scene in which the condemned killer Barnardine, played with blunt hilarity by Lucas Caleb Rooney, shrugs off the timid requests of Pompey and the executioner Abhorson (Jordan Lund) that he allow himself to be hanged.

If they have never considered something romantically with you or if they are naturally a timid person, your forward request might catch them off-guard and scare them off.

And a timid approach.

He mimes a timid huddle.

"Panache is therefore a timid heroism..

A timid person; a coward.

Nobody likes a timid yipster.

Then she was a timid newcomer.

At first, he was a timid Galileo.