timorously
Example Sentences
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“I came very late and timorously to the uses of power,” she wrote in her diary in 1968.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2021
We strut as a bully in the world but cower timorously at home.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2017
Now Lochner watched as an elderly woman timorously walked up to one of the transport policemen and inquired when the next train was due for West Berlin.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2011
One night Fate scratched timorously at Ca-Reer Garson's dressing-room door.
From Time Magazine Archive
No matter how timorously her hand went up, Miss Briggs happened to see it.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
