Sentence examples for timid as a from inspiring English sources

As a result, he has looked as timid as a wallflower next to his gallant teammates.

As Pritchett puts it, "The plump little man, only five feet high, with the bulging forehead and bulbous cheeks, gazes like some imperturbable and learned baby at his life... .. Actually Gibbon makes it clear that, while he had been too timid as a teenager at Oxford to visit the high-class bagnios or brothels of London, in later life he did so.

Though sometimes blocked or depressed, as a poet Lowell would suddenly bull his way forward; Bishop, timid as a turtle, often terribly lonely, slowly produced small masterpieces, finishing only one or two poems a year (she said, "I've always felt that I've written poetry more by not writing it").

Perched on her seat, timid as a sparrow, she takes a look around at her fellow passengers.

Being as quiet and as timid as a mouse just won't do.

I had always been timid as a child but when I sat down to write I gathered a sense of strength, courage and clarity that I didn't know I was capable of.

And I shall never forget the change which Bobby had undergone, whom I had last seen half a year earlier, shy and timid as if ever expecting an insult or something worse.

Surely, the visitors looked confused and timid as Jacobs scored on an 8-yard touchdown run after only 3 minutes 34 seconds and then Ahmad Bradshaw scored a 4-yard touchdown after 9 38.

Sugar Baby is a Redtick Coonhound WHO NEEDS YOU! She's very sweet girl but she can be a bit timid as loud noises and quick movements do startle her.

And yet Everton rarely put up a derby performance as wretched and timid as this one offered up by United in that winless sequence.

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