Sentence examples for turned shy from inspiring English sources

An insecure, diminished Jack is anathema -- it's as if the Fonz on "Happy Days" suddenly turned shy and self-effacing.

The goat had stopped a yard or so away from them, had turned shy, and hung her head.

Spotting Al Gore, "the first person I ever voted for", in the first row, she turned shy for just a moment.

The independence with which Dornik has turned shy bedroom demos into an atmospheric album (just out) adds a little weight to the Prince comparison.

THE fog had burned to tatters and the rain clouds turned shy at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., early one Sunday afternoon last month as 43 stock cars stormed toward the opening green flag of the Energy 500 at the track known as the Tricky Triangle.

6d. in 1830 was quite determined that the transaction should go ahead, despite her husband's last-minute misgivings: e [the husband] turned shy, and tried to get out of the business, but Mattie mad' un stick to it.

The fruit turns shy and self-sacrificing when cooked.

Or be open and thoughtful about his work and then suddenly turn shy.

Just as we have anti-depressants today to elevate mood, tomorrow we can expect a kind of Botox for the brain to smooth out wrinkled temperaments, to turn shy people into extroverts, or to bestow a sense of humor on a born grouch.

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Ms. Mongeon turned gun shy, and rarely said the words again, setting her sights on the summer.