Sentence examples for takes shy from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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.

Each leg of this trip takes just shy of an hour.

His daughter Chelsea took a shy bow.

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

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.

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.

Lego says that all in all, the build process took just shy of 13,500 hours.