timidly
IPA: tˈɪmʌdɫi
adverb
- In a timid manner.
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Examples of "timidly" in Sentences
- Three other people call timidly after him as he leaves.
- "Captain Miller," she called timidly, and at sound of his name, Miller turned toward her.
- Peter without saying a word timidly drew near to the fire and warmed his hands in the smoke.
- He heard his name called timidly from upstairs, and looking up saw his wife's golden head over the banisters.
- Tiptoeing across the living room, Joyce took her stand by the table and called timidly, expectantly and awesomely:
- No sooner had the human family begun to recover its balance, to emerge timidly from the ruins, than new wars came to plunge it back into the morass.
- It seemed like a dream to her; with a smile, she looked at her friend's face; just slowly she, realized her situation, remembered the bite, called timidly for the boy.
- The sensitive plant is too vulgar an allusion; but if the truth of modern naturalists may be depended upon, there is a plant which, instead of receding timidly from the intrusive touch, angrily protrudes its venomous juices upon all who presume to meddle with it: – do not you think this plant would be your fittest emblem?
- I†™ ve got the Final Fantasy section of the catalog here, †she offered, pulling out a well-worn and dog-eared magazine that held some of the brothel†™ s most popular products. “Oh, no thank you, †said the girl, blushing. “I can pick another one on my own. †She chewed her lip for a moment, then spoke up again timidly. “Do you have, ah, a Spike? †“Spiegel?
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