shy
Example Sentences
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But while her previous pictures never shied away from tenderness despite their outré scenarios, her latest is a far more melancholy affair.
From Los Angeles Times
Sam is hapless and downwardly mobile, yet he’s as likable as a shy puppy.
Limbic’s products aren’t considered medical devices, and so can’t be regulated as such, Harper said, adding that Limbic is engaging with the Food and Drug Administration and won’t shy away from regulation.
As a schoolboy, Norris wrote, he was shy.
Super Micro Computer shares plummeted just shy of 20% premarket, after a Justice Department indictment accused two employees and a contractor of wrongfully selling billions of dollars’ worth of artificial-intelligence-powered servers to China.
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