shyly

IPA: ʃˈaɪɫi

Examples of "shyly" in Sentences

He said the name shyly, as if almost afraid to use it.
“Dinner is served, milady,” he called shyly, grinning at me.
He's friendly, kind of shyly sweet and really not very charismatic.
"Ah, Monsieur," shyly, "to tell you my name would be to frighten you away."
Then there came the voices of the two children calling shyly outside the door, softly, with self-excited timidity:
Then, suddenly, as if she had just remembered her, Mother Drovski called Marie, who came shyly from the corner and stood before the two strange women.
It ends with an almost purple description of a painting that, Ellen says "shyly," she painted for Portia "There is emphasis and urgency in the rendering.
"O Mr. Fenton -- Gilbert," -- she pronounced his Christian name shyly, and in obedience to his reproachful look, -- "remember how short a time we have known each other.