Sentence examples for the coy from inspiring English sources

"It could be," comes the coy reply.

For a second, he verges on the coy.

The coy hints really got the fizz up in London's literary cocktail.

The coy title does not match the explicit material in the show.

It's slapstick action, and it's a long way from the coy Little Mermaid of my childhood.

The coy implication is that those photographs would be appropriate on pornographic sites.

One false step risks the coy, the patronizing or the downright sappy.

The other problem, though, is the coy nod to supernatural power.

But given Dunham's talent, ambition and success, I don't buy the coy deflection.

It has other, perhaps even more unfortunate, monikers, like the coy and nauseating "my jazz".

Mr. McNamara, 52, is a special education teacher at the Coy L. Cox School in Brooklyn.