Sentence examples for coy way from inspiring English sources

The title is a coy way to evoke life on the road.

Barney's swanky, gamy, unaffecting allegories strike me as Victorian in a similarly glamorous, strenuously coy way.

There was something about the coy way the driver spoke, though, that made me wake up a bit.

That might have been a slight at New Jersey, or a coy way of heading off speculation about another Nets run at the Heat's stars.

(The arbitrary 51 cents is added to every price on the menu, a coy way of reinforcing the restaurant's name, which echoes its Bank Street address).

The coy way the family car was to be hidden from sight is part and parcel of the fake villagery that muddies the thinking of domestic architects all over Europe.

Don't you like young people?" He became coy, the way he did when he was on the brink of saying something he called "spicy".

Nancy, a clothes-conscious girl with a film-star figure, a bespectacled countenance, and a coy, tiptoe way of walking, crossed the lawn and pressed the front-door bell.

Josh Lobis: It's kind of a coy, little way to still get to the best parties, have your cake and eat it too and be a guy.

That, perhaps, and because in a society as unequal as rural Cambodia's, it gave men like Sa and Coy a way to have the warlords take them seriously.

"Game of Thrones" is not coy about the way the engine of misogyny can grind the fingers of those who try to work it in their favor.