Sentence examples for skittish manner from inspiring English sources

Friends said they grew worried by his gaunt complexion and a perceptibly skittish manner.

I found these unpersuasive: Gero failed to capture the composer's skittish manner, and the texts came from "Testimony," the memoir dubiously attributed to Shostakovich.

A bald man with a thick Mississippi accent and the skittish manner of a shore bird, Shettles had a wife and seven children living in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

His first 50 occupied 130 balls, his second a mere 54 and he was positively skittish in the manner he reached his century with a six.

Piranhas are usually mild-mannered and skittish.

This has been done in a manner that has made many people skittish about riding public transit or making their daily trips to the market.

Skittish quarterbacks.

So investors are skittish.

Castellanos was understandably skittish.

"People are skittish.

Our boats got skittish.