Sentence examples for timidly with from inspiring English sources

Mallin approached timidly, with downcast eyes.

About five fourteen-year-olds pipe up timidly with a chorus of "We love you Henman, we do" during the break.

The Opus 18, No. 6, in particular, stumbled along timidly with one particularly iffy sforzando sounding less like a cry of anguish than like one resulting from a stubbed toe.

While perfectly engaging to read, the story plays timidly with Chekhovian material without ever really grappling with its possibilities; it is content to substitute charm for psychological detail, glibness for felt emotion.

So, yes, this administration is headed in a new direction on drug policy -- but too slowly, too timidly, and with little vision of a fundamentally different way of dealing with drugs in the U.S. or global society.

The applause lost its breeding as the pro-Callas majority got mad. the sound produced by the percussed human hand is inferior in volume to that produced by the larynx, so somebody shouted "Bravo!" Timidly, then with increasing resolution, other followed.

Jihan, meanwhile, has found the courage to go into the small pool, where she timidly plays with the other children.

Theaters, museums, concerts - everything operates timidly, meekly, with uninspiring social consequence in that they don't move people, or move society forward as art can so often do.

It proceeds at times boldly and other times timidly, beginning with a plausible argument in a dissent, which then appears in a concurrence before years later becoming the majority opinion.

Indeed, I observed one little girl timidly experiment with a Himalayan mustard leaf, declaring, "smells good!" This behavior stands in remarkable contrast to what I did as a kid and I now see as a teacher: students selectively picking out the junk food and tossing the greens.

Commendably, Zucca's kitchen doesn't play it safe with timidly seasoned, middle-of-the-road preparations.