Sentence examples for timid at from inspiring English sources

For their part, the new arrivals, timid at first, grew expansive in the claims they made.

I was so timid at first under your blue metallic eyes, your frosty smile So timid.

Timid at first, Ms. Ibrahim slowly began confiding in the American.

They are more experienced and we were timid at the beginning but we created some chances.

He seemed timid at first, but she quickly learned that behind the soft voice lay a powerful will.

Actions by the interim head of state, Catherine Sanda-Panza, and her government, have been timid at best.

He has a "sense of himself as prince of the house" and dislikes both his parents for it — his father for failing to exert a father's leadership in the household, and his mother for loving him too much, making him fight for independence from her and turning him into "an irascible despot" at home and a physically timid overachiever at school.

After a timid surrender at Southampton, Swansea produced an improved showing in losing 3-1 at home against the league leaders Manchester City last Saturday.

In the early 2000s the Bank of Japan's timid efforts at battling deflation with money-printing failed.

Meanwhile, her sister Jane Rosamund Pikee) makes timid eyes at a carroty chump named Bingley (Simon Woods), who has taken a house nearby.

Underinvestment has also hit the output of crude oil and refined products like petrol.As with electricity, Mr Fox has found even timid changes at Pemex thwarted.