bashfully

Example Sentences

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Bashfully, he admitted his flashy footwear - specially made by a friend who “expected me to win gold” - no longer fit the occasion.

From Washington Times • Aug. 16, 2016

Bashfully, he admitted his flashy footwear — specially made by a friend who “expected me to win gold” — no longer fit the occasion.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2016

Bashfully, she put her face in her hands and shook her head.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 28, 2015

He within is lying, sorely wounded; To him come his mother and his sister; Bashfully his wife delays to come there.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred

O'er those distant pine-tree forests Streamed the moonlight through the valley; Bashfully some stars already From the clear blue sky were peeping.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von