Sentence examples for timid as from inspiring English sources

Early on he had become friends with another flawed officer, Sherman, who had been publically accused of being both "timid" as well as "insane" and sent into military limbo before redeeming himself with the army during Grant's push south.

She's not as timid as people think she is.

Let's face it, Dan has surrounded himself with people as timid as he is.

Yet our activism today has become as tame and timid as our neatly-trimmed gardens.

A genuine Mexican walked in, alone and timid, as they all seemed to be at first.

She was not as timid as she had been on their wedding night.

The deer, both the small, timid cheetal, as well as the blackbuck, are joined by other species -- peacocks, rabbits and pigeons -- which feed and move about unafraid.

Labour's public spending plans will boost investment, with contracts that largely benefit the "timid mouse" (as Professor Mariana Mazzucato characterises it) that is the private sector.

With a man as timid and repressed as Forster, it is often what is not said that matters the most.

Thrashed at home by Shakhtar Donetsk last Friday, they were as timid and fragile as Chelsea have been at times this term, their only real attacking threat carried by the much coveted Andriy Yarmolenko on the flank.

Several notches down the social scale are boisterous Cynthia Kania and Robert Mackenzie as one younger couple, and mortifyingly timid Kim Conrad and Joe Dahman as another.