Sentence examples for little abashed from inspiring English sources

The bad ideas of the camel and the avocado would take a little abashed explaining.

Then, a little abashed, "of course you always get that kind of talk".

Charles Egerton, trainer of Darkness, may be feeling a little abashed, but he seemed to take the sensible course in going with Wayne Hutchinson instead.

Sitting in Mr Blair's shoes, ordinary mortals might have felt just a little abashed at the failure to unearth a single weapon of mass destruction in Iraq after more than two months of searching.

A few hours after the news from Oslo, Obama, looking a little abashed, even a little uncomfortable, stepped up to a portable podium in the Rose Garden and spoke of the honor that had come to him so soon — too soon, even many of his admirers admit — and so unexpectedly.

Mr. Hitchens was flattered by the honor, he said a few days beforehand, but also a little abashed.

They were terribly rushed in the Wines and Liquors, which accounted for the rather abashed presence of little Miss Cutling.

By Richard Lockridge The New Yorker, April 14 , 1934P. 25 They were terribly rushed in the Wines and Liquors, which accounted for the rather abashed presence of little Miss Cutling.

Among the most influential literary critics to emerge from the academy, Trilling admitted late in life that he had once stood "puzzled, abashed, and a little queasy" before the "high artistic culture of the modern age," a discomfort no doubt torqued by sitting at a table next to a man whose mind had been formed at first hand by that culture.

"Sarah," Mr. Small said, slightly abashed.

Seeing the short clip leaves the impression that McCarthy was immediately abashed.