Sentence examples for had a timid from inspiring English sources

She was quite old, and had a timid, worried smile.

What the hell do you expect of a kid who had a timid mouse of a father, frightened, panicky, whacked the daylights out of me when Mrs. True from upstairs accused me of pushing her kid to the sidewalk, which I never did, but the pack of little goyim he was with ran when I turned in mock menace.

Finally her two sisters plot to have a timid friend of Bell's offer to live with her.

And as is clear from "Gucci Gucci," or from last year's "Kittys x Choppas" mixtape, she has a timid, fragile flow, though not without charm or comedy.

To rise above the ridiculousness of the material would have required figuring out how to make Jeanne into a heroine, and Ms. Swank has a timid, indecisive manner that shrinks the character.

Westerners have a timid relationship with death.

Under most circumstances, the blacktip reef shark has a timid demeanor and is easily frightened away by swimmers.

Whatever the reason, we had a fearful, timid, silent approach at that time -- as opposed to the approach this week -- and we lost big.

The only disappointment I've ever had is a timid treacle tart, lacking the texture and jamminess of the best.

Roger Button and I had not been especially close, but, because he had been a timid boy, and because he, too, was from England, he had for a while followed me about.

Their applause was as much about vindication: they knew that if Labour had offered a timid manifesto, offering only to meekly tinker with the system, then the party would not have secured the biggest increase in its vote share since Attlee himself.