Sentence examples for shy it from inspiring English sources

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One positive sign for Mr. Lhota is that he has relied more on the small-dollar contributions that are maximized under the city's matching-funds program, and as a result, is only a couple of hundred thousand dollars shy, it appears, of what Mr. de Blasio can spend.

The narrative is hesitant, shy: it is full of self-conscious references to its own authorship; its vocabulary is one of "maybe," "perhaps," of the "truth" that "lies somewhere in between".

Without her, he is so shy it is crushing.

Best Buy is not so shy; it will give you $100 in credit for it.

Jennifer Lasiowski, who had gone out with Brian for a year when they were at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said in her eulogy that Brian was so shy it took him six dates to kiss her.

When he tells me he's shy it's not a joke.

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GPs don't know how to talk about it and paediatricians shy away from it.

"He doesn't shy away from it, he loves it.

Still, for a man who by all accounts is media-shy, it was, at the very least, a bold and confident performance.

This means that a cricket is limited in its ability to be both exploratory and shy when it suits it.

Yet they shy away from it.

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