Sentence examples for much more coy from inspiring English sources

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But when is the crucial part here — and that is something Smith was much more coy about.

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A few of his word-pictures end up as not much more than coy one-liners: "ice" in red-hot letters, "space" in comic-book sci-fi typeface against an almost empty blue field, and a squiggly "jelly".

(He insists, somewhat defensively, that he spends 260 days a year with the theater but is a bit more coy about how much of that time is in St . Petersburg.

Asking someone out on a date when you're young is an awkward, coy affair, but once you're a little older, the whole process becomes much more blunt and straightforward.

"Black History," a much longer application of the same technique to his relationships with every black person he's ever known, is a little more coy — he tries to make his internalized racism shrivel up by exposing it to harsh sunlight, but he's also trying to reassure us that he's down.

Derek Jeter was more coy.

Connecticut is more coy.

This strategy seems more coy than suggestive.

Some on stage were more coy.

But Cameron and Brown have been more coy.

These recollections are, disappointingly, more coy than candid.

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