Sentence examples for bashful to from inspiring English sources
The phrase 'bashful to' is not correct in written English. The phrase you are looking for is 'bashful about,' which means to feel shy or embarrassed about something. For example: She was bashful about talking in front of the large crowd.
"He was never bashful to tell you just how wrong you were".
I'm not too bashful to ask those people about stuff I don't understand.
Where else in Britain could possibly be too bashful to identify itself as the first UK city of culture?
SSL worried that American men would be too bashful to buy condoms in a box printed with the phrase "premature ejaculation".
(During his title fight with Trevor Berbick, he was suffering from a bout of gonorrhea that he had been too bashful to get treated).
When Wyatt Workman, the 8-year-old winner of an award for his work on ocean conservation (he raised nearly $4,000), was too bashful to come onstage at GQ magazine's Gentlemen's Ball, it was hand-delivered.
Deciding, after some bashful waffling, to work up to baring his heart, Clement repaired to a local dive bar.
"After a cup or two, it seems to help some bashful folks to overcome their nerves when the singing begins".
And then there is the tale of the bashful, well-to-do candidate who, asked to state his qualifications, said he had studied "languages at a college in the Midlands".
Some shops were said to be squeamish about displaying bras and the first editions were packaged in black boxes to make it easier for bashful men to sell, but the first 40 produced quickly sold out and in the second year sales were worth $500,000.
If the reports are true, at long last someone -- most likely someone within the religious leadership in Iran has prevailed upon a president who has brought his nation to the brink of a devastating defensive challenge from Israel, not known for a bashful reticence to defend her people.
