Sentence examples for sounded shy from inspiring English sources

And her voice sounded shy and wounded.

Her normally ebullient child sounded shy and distant.

Did he sound shy or did he speak with authority?

She didn't sound shy, but she looked it.

It makes you sound shy and socially awkward and unable to function in society.

By contrast Ms. Croft sometimes still sounds shy, though her reticence is also its own creative strategy.

Just sound shy or innocent.

If all the ritual sounds just shy of a new age-y cult initiation, well, maybe it was.

It never sounded thinner or shyer than when she sat alone in 1963 in a vast auditorium of the United Nations, a young woman in a sensible dress, explaining the evils of apartheid to an assembly of empty leather chairs.All her conditioning taught her to be quiet.

When he pumped up the crowd with "make-some-noise" commands, he sounded more like a pleasantly shy boss than party-starter.

Speaking to a reporter recently, she sounded self-assured, but didn't shy away from the word "crazy".