Sentence examples for so shy of from inspiring English sources

The beach is well signposted and Hillend is 100 metres or so shy of the sand dunes.

The author everyone seems to believe has a cache of unpublished work is JD Salinger, a writer so shy of publicity he makes Lee look like Kim Kardashian.

He ended up beating Russia's Victor Minibaev by five points with a score of 542.15, 13 or so shy of the total that won him his Olympic bronze.

"Mother always lectured us -- in a kinder, gentler way -- against using the big I," said Poppy, who is so shy of "I" he has never written a memoir.

Many now seem chastened and are forecasting an increase of only about 100,000 jobs, which is 50,000 or so shy of what is needed to keep up with population growth.

Thoughts drifted to Sead Kolasinac, who had been deposed again by Maitland-Niles; in a performance so shy of character and personality, would a rumbustious surge up the left tramline, the kind of move the "Tank" showed to be his speciality during the season's early weeks, have provided exactly the kind of morsel Arsenal might seize on?

He jumped up nervously and said, 'Uh... gotta go.'" But this contradicted O'Neal's own account of the relationship in 1995 in Vibe, where she remembered Jackson as "being so shy" and "one of the nicest, most innocent people I've ever met", and, "Once he came into my bedroom, and he wouldn't even sit on my bed".

I ask myself that I were a different person who wasn't so shy about this kind of stuff would I have met someone already?

I ask myself if I were a different person who wasn't so shy about this kind of stuff would I have met someone already?

If you feel the same, please give me a sign (I'm so shy!) by posting a detailed account of your opinion of the N.S.A.'s Prism surveillance program on Facebook.

"I was so shy I asked a friend of mine to get her phone number," he said.