timorously

IPA: tˈɪmɝʌsɫi

Examples of "timorously" in Sentences

Violet timorously asked, What about the bale of silk sarcenet?
He did not approach the open drinking culture of Manhattan timorously.
A woman who had taken cover behind a glass knickknack case pointed timorously to the staircase leading up to the second floor.
It may be an indication of national temperament that the Englishmen in Mr. Barnes's collection deal with their midlife crises more timorously, by becoming servants to cautious routines.
The locals gathered around the bar scoffed at this notion, and scoffed harder still when one boy suggested timorously that perhaps Sir Galefrid intended to pay reparations for what the Slaver Knight had done.
It was but a silly maid, of so small account that she was set to keep the door, that challenged him, and she only asked him carelessly, Art not thou one of this man's disciples? probably suspecting it by his sheepish look, and coming in timorously.