Sentence examples for take shy from inspiring English sources

It could take shy people and make them confident and outgoing.

But it took a week in a budget downtown hotel – queuing for breakfasts at Dottie's True Blue cafe, taking shy photos outside the house Maupin was inspired by – an afternoon in Alcatraz, and various second-hand clothing purchases along Haight Street, for me to convince my boyfriend that this, one day, should be our home.

Due to feelings of heightened anxiety about attending a social function, it takes shy people a little bit longer to warm up to the situation to reduce these feelings of anxiety.

The longer it goes, the more Andy Kaufman waits for his cue, the deeper the joy when he returns to take his shy bow.

It could not have been for his shooting, for when he made space for himself to take a shy after an hour he managed to miss the six-yard box as well as the goal.

It can take a shy software engineer who's never talked to a client and turn him into the company's best salesperson.

For this example, let's take a shy, nervous guy who is socially awkward: Rick couldn't stop staring down at the crying girl.

His daughter Chelsea took a shy bow.

But Natalia took a shy bow after her relatively quiet and decent underwear, much applauded by the front-row guest Hilary Swank and a posse of young French movie stars.

Edith Wharton praised the scene early in the novel when the coarsely philandering Tom Buchanan takes Nick Carraway the shy young man who narrates the story to an apartment he keeps for his mistress, Myrtle, in Washington Heights.

His switch to rugby came with the magnificently named Daytona Beach Coconuts, before he took a shy at higher honours by joining the Tiger Rugby Academy in Ohio, which seeks to identify Olympic talent.