Sentence examples for timid boy from inspiring English sources

A rather timid boy, he found adjustment to the new environment difficult.

His family described him as a smiley but timid boy known as Gordito because he was chubby.

"I was a shy and timid boy at primary school, but mixing with all these sons of army officers meant I became confident and pushed myself".

Roger Button and I had not been especially close, but, because he had been a timid boy, and because he, too, was from England, he had for a while followed me about.

Taking a timid boy along as his mascot-cum-interpreter, One-Eye (so called, the lad explains, because he has one eye) tags along with a band of Crusader Vikings bound for the Holy Land.

Both children have encountered some amazing grown-ups along the way, selfless volunteers from the dedicated choir director to the baseball coach who taught my timid boy to play third base.

While there is a far wider spectrum of behavior than she ever acknowledges — apparently her patients include no timid boys or unassuming men — many boys do act more turbocharged than many girls.

I was such a conformist, timid little boy".

Charlesworth uses these two apparent opposites -- a timid Nazi boy, a bold Jewish girl -- as a way of exploring what good people have in common and how innocents learn to be decent in a world swarming with evil.

Her mother, Lore, sends Ilse out of the country to safety, sheds her husband's dangerous name and finds work with a Nazi family as a nursery maid, taking care of Nicolai, a timid, sensitive boy: hardly prize qualities for a scion of Nazis.

Eliot's family play host to a timid Japanese boy.