Sentence examples for a very timid from inspiring English sources

"It's a very timid package," Mr. Nickles said.

Hollande, who has run a very timid campaign, may be liked, but the French still wonder if he's tough enough, if he's "présidentiable".

It was November 2007 and he was a very timid, quiet 15-year-old who arrived at Belfast International Airport and could hardly speak a word of English".

It is, however, a very timid and placid species of snake.

Look, I was a very timid little kid when it came to physical challenges.

On Ashton's reading, the problem is that the party strayed too far towards a very timid centrism instead of offering the bold alternative political and economic vision that voters obviously craved.

He was, he says, "a very shy, timid child" — not one even he could foresee barking orders to a crew of 900 as he directed his 1999 James Bond film, "The World Is Not Enough".

We meet the main character, Kamibli, in Postcolonial Nigeria as a very shy and timid 15-year-old, reluctant to speak and stuck under the control of her strict Catholic father who she desperately longs to please.

"I was a very shy little girl," she confirms, "and I'm naturally a timid person.

Mr. McClelland admitted to having developed a crush on her, but romantically he was very timid until a Y2K New Year's Eve party when he made a move, which abruptly ended their friendship.

"When I meet Japanese women they don't speak a lot; they are very timid," she said.