timorously

Example Sentences

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We strut as a bully in the world but cower timorously at home.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2017

Sophie, I’ll venture somewhat timorously to say, ups her game a bit in her new screen incarnation.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2016

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

Floating graciously through Como's golden villages and classic villas, Madame Solario is pursued timorously by an Englishman, Bernard Middleton, and tenaciously by a barbaric Russian, Count Kovanski.

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