timorous

Example Sentences

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She became the party’s spine and its sinew, holding together the Democrat’s many warring factions and standing firm at times the more timorous were prepared to back down.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

Haynesville companies are being more timorous than before because they need to hit their returns on investment, lest they lose hard-won investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Even amoral or timorous lawyers will hesitate to misbehave if it becomes clear that doing so endangers their livelihood.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025

Somewhat along the lines of Mickey and Goofy or Popeye and Olive, Cuphead is the troublemaker and rule-breaker who drags his more timorous brother, Mugman, into continual misadventures.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2022

Not even birds can pass them by, not even the timorous doves that bear ambrosia to Father Zeus; caught by downdrafts, they die on rockwall smooth as ice.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer