Sentence examples for was bashful from inspiring English sources

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was bashful

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Inclined to avoid notice

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If anything, he was bashful.

When he arrived, a few weeks later, his manner was bashful.

Offstage, he was bashful and polite, but, with a microphone and in front of an audience, he was a gyrating fireball with an unbelievably sexy sneer.

But she was bashful yesterday when she overwhelmingly fulfilled her draft-day pledge to win the 2000 W.N.B.A. Rookie of the Year award.

That cocky game face dropped, and he was bashful, almost apologetic, when Gordon thanked him for the $100,000 floor he is donating to his alma mater's gym.

Her children tugged at her, punched her; the oldest boy shouted, "Hey, Ma, that's you!" But Mrs. Ashida was bashful; she rubbed her eyes with her baby-plump hands and laughed.

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Don't be bashful.

"Don't be bashful," the agent says.

"Come, sweetheart, don't be bashful.

We should not be bashful about this.

Don't be bashful: be brash, be fresh.

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