Sentence examples for the bashful from inspiring English sources

His frequent sidekick was the bashful and stammering Porky Pig.

The Japanese news media nicknamed him "the bashful prince" and a star was born.

She said she frequently taped the program without the bashful Mr. Henderson's knowledge.

There's no elbow-nudging, though there is a flirtation between the bashful pachyderm and a long-lashed frog.

A wedding?" The bashful biographer/novelist/poet, launching her own book, had been speaking for about 15 minutes.

BERLIN — When France launched a military intervention in Mali last month, Germany appeared to be in the familiar position of the bashful, gentle giant.

For those who may have wondered what lies behind the bashful-virtuoso façade, the Jewish-themed program in December was a revelation, foregrounding the player's passions.

And though Zack Morris has now graduated from wise guy Bayside student to wise guy lawyer, a certain little on-set mishap is still a bit of a titillating affair: Mark-Paul Gosselaar put the Bash in bashful.

The embarrassing affair continues back in California where the kindly, bashful architect Adam (the Ralph Bellamy figure, played by Steve Martin) is courting Jane and she's shrieking delightedly about her predicament with three chums, fellow divorcees right out of Sex and the City.

Curiously, he is not the most bashful person on the fashion block.

Even if you have no French, feel the rub of this: "Et que ma main s'enivre du plaisir / De palper ton corps électrique …" If I were a suburban, middle-aged tabby of fixed abode (and I am), those lines would leave me with the squirming, bashful conviction that, somewhere along the line, between kittenhood and fireside, I missed out.