Sentence examples for sheepishly from inspiring English sources

[Sheepishly] The truth is, I have.

Much later, she returns in a smoke ring from the great beyond to confess sheepishly that she really meant Budapest.

I sheepishly admit to having a JIC bag of old mobile phones.

"Er, yes," Tim replies sheepishly.

What is more, he sheepishly accepts, every desolate ex-banker standing on the pavement with a cardboard box and a fat redundancy cheque is also a potential MBA student.

Instead, he goes back, somewhat sheepishly, to Cardinal Newman.

"I've given them a missed call," he says sheepishly. "They'll call back".

Mao is too intimately linked with the party's identity to allow any further examination of the "mistakes" the party sheepishly admitted he made, five years after his death in 1976.Mr Mao's essay said the party's takeover of the country in 1949 did not bring happiness to China: "On the contrary, it plunged [the Chinese] into an abyss of misery for 30 years".

Just before the three-month recess, it survived a no-confidence vote, thanks to a tiny junior coalition partner, the Progressive Democrats, staying sheepishly loyal.But its tribulations are not entirely over.

Hours before Lord Butler's report was released, Iraq's new prime minister, Ayad Allawi, sheepishly told the BBC that his émigré group was behind the claim.

And as Taliban militants have been slaughtered by their Northern Alliance enemies this week, or have sheepishly surrendered or defected, so the idea of glorious defeat at the hands of the infidels has come to seem less compelling.