"getting shy" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could use it in the sentence, "As he walked into the room, he began to get shy."
Even the most outspoken boy got shy.
The boy talks about Helen Keller's determination, then gets shy.
It's so new to us, we get shy".
They get shy before a foreign native speaker, afraid to make mistakes," Ms. Kim said.
Later, during a question-and-answer session at the movie's première, at Film Forum, Eggleston got shy again.
And Stevens and Murkowski, especially, didn't get shy as Alaskan businesses inched up closer to them and their families.That's just one theory, of course.
"Now don't get shy, what do you do for a living?" Schumer asked the man, to which he responded: "Sales".
"But as whales started to get shy or scarce and the price of whale oil drifted up, this started to elicit competition, particularly from coal-based oil and gas".
I was reading The Princess And The Pea with him, and everyone thought I put my head on the desk because I was bored, but I wasn't – I got muddled up on a word and I got shy.
