Sentence examples for timidly asks from inspiring English sources

After dinner, she timidly asks if anyone wants coffee, real coffee — and, despite the hysterical rejections in this age of frazzled nerves and pervasive decaf, makes a pot, from which she drains a cup or two.

After dinner, she timidly asks if anyone wants coffee, real coffee and, despite the hysterical rejections in this age of frazzled nerves and pervasive decaf, makes a pot, from which she drains a cup or two.

This time, however, we timidly asked, "Uh... ?" "Next week," he said.

"Mr. President, is everything O.K.?" a technician timidly asked.

After almost 40 years, he timidly asked his editor at the magazine, Judith Long, if she might intercede with "the brass" about a raise.

I didn't much care for the Cape cover either, but when I timidly asked if I could see some alternatives I was told grandly that I could not, because that would delay the publication even further.

When we were presented with huge menus in French, we timidly asked what ris de veau might possibly be, and the waiter stood back, rolled his eyes and proceeded to translate every item in an are-you-deaf-or-are-you-dense tone.

Particularly moving is the spectacle of a savagely independent intellect, whose utterances are so fiery that they should have been printed in red ink, abasing itself to timidly ask the Wagners' permission to play its own composition on the piano, a piece that finds no favor with them.

Afterward, Kaya timidly asked Hussle for his autograph, and told him she was shy.

That evening I timidly asked if I could begin making a film about him.

We timidly asked if it was okay to snap her photo, she not only kindly agreed, but sent us on our way with a blessing.