Sentence examples for by bashful from inspiring English sources

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FROM the ramparts of Bandra fort, built by the Portuguese and now haunted by bashful couples, you can admire Mumbai's new "sealink", a suspension bridge linking the city's suburbs with its downtown neighbourhoods, almost 3 miles (4.7 kilometres) away.

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Another successful tactic in the research lab was for the raise-seeking woman to identify negotiation as a special skill she brings to the company, de-fanging the request in a way women have traditionally done - I know I'm seen as tough but that's why I'm such a good trial lawyer - followed by a bashful smile, of course.

An essayist, author and former editor of The American Scholar, he is also, by his own bashful admission, a snob.

She is well supported by Patrick Bridgman, as her bashful fellow-in-folk (maybe, as yet, a little too restricted by Stephen's repressedness), and by Chloe Harris, deftly transiting clashing teenage states of innocence and experience.

After breaking through with a couple of well-received mixtapes and the teddy-bear-sexy single "Best I Ever Had" (whose video, directed by Kanye West, cast Drake as a bashful B.M.O.C. surrounded by busty cheerleaders), he's moved through the stages of post-fame disillusionment at Internet speed.

India, by contrast, is less bashful about these things.

At the party, we were greeted by a contingent of bashful children in party hats who blew party horns and kazoos at us.

Quayyum Khan – codenamed Bashful Dwarf by MI5 – is also alleged to have been the leader of a group planning to use a fertiliser bomb to attack Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London, or high-pressure gas pipelines in south-east of England.

Hilary Swank's wealthy and willful Mary hauls her young son out of school in the US and halfway across the world to teach him at an idyllic country getaway in South Africa, only to lose him to malaria on a visit to Mozambique, while Martha, a British mother played with a bashful warmth by Brenda Blethyn, loses her own son to the disease when he visits Mozambique to volunteer as a teacher.

"Hilo is Good People" Each of the winners walked to the stage accompanied by whispered -or less bashful shout-outs for their island roots.

Irad brushes his face and slumps in his chair, bashful and moved by his brother's praise, as if it were unexpected.

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