shyness
Example Sentences
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Yet her shyness intensified in the final decade of her life, when she stayed home caring for her mother, watching sports and raking in royalties.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
"It must be very difficult to overcome that shyness or thinking, 'maybe I am not good enough'," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
Purchase’s acting program was good, but my shyness kept me from getting significant parts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
Dr. Cohen also speaks candidly about the anxiety and shyness that sometimes limited his professional opportunities.
From Science Daily • Oct. 14, 2025
His manner was not constrained—he had left shyness a long way behind him if he ever had any—but it was restrained: tentative, aloof.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
