Sentence examples for being timorous from inspiring English sources
"Far from being timorous little mice waiting for the cat to come and eat us," he said, "we have been remarkable for acquisitions south of the border".
Exit, pursued by a bear, again A rabbit pulled out of a hat On the mend ReprintsThe impression is further strengthened by its leader's strange performance was he being timorous, or cunning?—during and after his trial.
Initially, the SNP's aims in Govan were timorous.
In England, where it took them four decades to win, India's cricketers were timorous, poorly paid and uncompetitive.
The Postal Service's filing with the commission to try out Metro Post is timorous in tone and lists self-applied hobbles.
Anne-Catherine Gillet's Micaela is timorous rather than morally strong, which might have been preferable here.
O.K., I thought; let's try it, I haven't come all this way to be timorous.
Fabrics and soft furnishings are timorous by nature but our designs which are rather 'out there' suit the word Beasties - especially as our early designs featured insects".
Nicholas Hytner, the National Theater's artistic-director-elect, stages the earlier encounters with an exuberance that suggests his regime won't be timorous.
The boys are described as "two lobes of the same brain": Gregory is physically brave and a smart aleck, while Brian is timorous but cleverer, figuring things out before Gregory does, just in the nick of time.
