Sentence examples for timid to ask from inspiring English sources
He was a senior at Penn State but still too timid to ask her out.
As a shy young woman surrounded by mostly male classmates, she was too timid to ask for help when she faced challenges, and as a result, she fell behind.
Lace, everywhere since Prada put it on the runway for fall of 2008, is available in the form of a black-overlaid nude skirt ($63), white eyelet gloves ($35) and several flesh-colored pieces hanging high on a wall that I was too timid to ask the "shopgirl," who was reading Victor LaValle's "Big Machine" behind a counter, to fetch with her cherry picker.
He is Adam's former roommate, Phillip (the sparky Frederick Weller), the kind of macho lunk Aaron Eckhart usually plays in LaBute's movies; she is the pert, corn-fed Jenny (the superb Gretchen Mol), whom Phillip poached when Adam was too timid to ask her out.
Picture Vernon Jordan, brought in by President-elect Clinton to sharpen up the 1992 transition, using locker room language to tell the ineffably polite Warren Christopher, who wants to be secretary of state but is too timid to ask, that he has one last chance to put his name forward.
As someone who finds herself intimidated around "experts," I quickly became aware that by being too timid to ask a question, I was doing myself a great disservice and missing out on a chance to learn more.
She shopped with gestures, as though she were an Eastern woman, robed and veiled, too timid, or linguistically inept, to ask about things.
Silent, shadowy figures in public, Afghan women, dressed in the all-compassing burka, often are too timid to approach strangers to ask for directions.
The timid nonsmoker would be spared having to ask the diner at the next table to please put out the cigarette; the bold smoker would be spared the anger that arises when a spoilsport ruins an after-dinner smoke.
"We're timid; we just don't want to ask," she said of some sellers.
Unlike in the case of Mrs Thatcher or Mr Blair, the Congress party, itself timid and status quoist, was not likely to ask Manmohan Singh to leave office.
