retiring person
Example Sentences
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He is a very retiring person who was being thrust into the limelight.
From Scientific American • Jun. 24, 2022
She was a shy, retiring person who would rather sit around the kitchen table than go out in public.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2018
"This is not a shy and retiring person," said Steven Frates, director of research at the Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2010
And if Goetz was a shy, retiring person as he claimed, why was he parading around town with reporters, making pronouncements on the need for law-and-order?
From Time Magazine Archive
The person who "calls himself a Gentleman" is seen as a retiring person in another mirror.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 by Various
