Sentence examples for in a timid from inspiring English sources

"I've always been gay," Mr. Oundo said, in a timid but growing voice.

"It's me, Jen," she said into the phone in a timid voice.

He uttered very few words, confirming his age, employment status and address in a timid baritone.

Roasting is a good way to bring out the best in a timid pumpkin; it deals well with the wateriness.

I'm not shy in a timid way, just shy in a way that I'm not comfortable with people".

I would call my manager who was at home and be like, 'There's somebody at soundcheck …'" she says in a timid voice.

The Killing A Timid Woman In a Man's World The largest gun store in Utah is a squat cinder block structure in a strip mall.

He had survived a rapid deterioration of journalism in the US into a timid orphan, frequently irritating its rich uncles in the world of advertising, who in turn were being irritated by organised political interest groups threatening boycotts.

He was telling my brother-in-law — a timid giraffe in a blue T-shirt, with two hooves poking out of each jean leg — about some fire/tornado/hurricane packages he'd sold in new developments, and his snout nodded as his maw said, "Went like hotcakes".

Mei-Li no longer arrives in San Francisco as a timid mail-order bride with her wise, ancient father; she is instead a self-possessed Mao youth, with plenty of traditional wisdom of her own, whose father was executed for dissidence.

The people who depend on our public services will pay the price if we combine reduction in resource with a timid adherence to the same old way of doing things.