Use of shy in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include shy at the start of sentence, shy at the end of sentence and shy in the middle of sentence

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shy at the end of sentence


  1. Once bit, twice shy.
  2. Once bitten, twice shy.
  3. Once bit [bitten] twice shy.
  4. As a teenager I was painfully shy.
  5. He's at a disadvantage being so shy.
  6. She didn't speak loudly because she was so shy.
  7. She seemed rather aloof when in fact she was just shy.

shy in the middle of sentence


  1. Mary is a shy girl.
  2. He was a quiet, shy man.
  3. She's very shy with adults.
  4. She's shy around strangers.
  5. He was too shy to speak to her.
  6. Please don't be shy?I won't eat you!
  7. She was too shy to ask anyone for help.
  8. The dormouse is a shy, nocturnal creature.
  9. He's very shy and never makes eye contact.
  10. The child was shy and hid behind his mother.
  11. I felt clumsy, shy and awkward at the party.
  12. She was a shy and retiring person off-stage.
  13. Mary was shy at her introduction to the company.
  14. She was very shy while she was in elementary school.
  15. She is slim and shy - the very antithesis of her sister.
  16. The children, at first shy, soon lost their inhibitions.
  17. They're shy animals and don't often come out in daylight.
  18. sometime affection is a shy flower that takes time to blossom.
  19. At that age they can start becoming shy with the opposite sex.
  20. Sometimes affection is a shy flower that takes time to blossom.
  21. From "shy Mary," she morphed into a business person and working woman.
  22. Alan sings with shy intensity, hiding behind the security blanket of his guitar.

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