Use "bashful" in a sentence

1. She was dressed in the same thin but warm, clinging robe she'd worn the previous Nightday and Alan reacted with what seemed like an admiring, if bashful, stare

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2. Under the misty light of a street lantern, she had coyly looked down, trying to hide her newly bashful smile

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3. There was a pause before he replied, and he seemed almost bashful

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4. This time Grant was not bashful

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5. Sim wasn’t being too helpful, tongue-tied and bashful, when he could have jumped in to help

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6. Christina looks away, and at first I think she is bashful, but then I see her face contort like he slapped her instead of complimented her

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7. He was outspoken, yet bashful

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8. He waved shyly to the crowd, a bashful smile showing beneath his light brown hair

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9. “As are The Unthinking Impulsives, uh, would you prefer Your Majesty or Sir Mark?” Holanam asked with a bashful smile and a nervous toss of his black hair

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10. “I think he is a bit bashful about being announced with such formality and praise, but I truly am inordinately proud of him

11. He managed a bashful grin

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12. All slightly bashful until Melvin defused the situation as usual

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13. As where the charms of bashful youth retire

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14. Gradually, he became apathetic and bashful

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15. When he was satisfied with his inspection, he licked Jingles’ antlers and then tried to chew on them in a bashful manner

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16. The bashful conventional ones brought with them an atmosphere of order, direction and purpose

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17. “Anna was never the bashful type,” Sage said

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18. Bashful Robin thought she was making sexual advances

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19. had a bit of a bashful look on my face as I handed the phone back to Sue

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20. “Faizan was not so quiet and bashful since birth

21. Than gave Therese a bashful smile when he answered the door in his khaki shorts and a short-sleeved denim shirt

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22. “So what is this miracle cure you have for me?” he asked with a bashful chuckle

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23. Interestingly he didn’t feel bashful or scared in front of the big man with the square face

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24. ‘Come on then, bashful

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25. He was short, dark, with smooth, jet black hair like an Indian and a sweet bashful smile

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26. Flicker said nothing, but ducked her head away, as if bashful of something

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27. ” She said with a bashful smirk

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28. She was a mixture of bashful beauty with an underlying cheerfulness of spirit that washed over me like a soothing balm over an old wound

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29. reserved, cautious, bashful, skittish, wary, or fearful will rush out into the hurricane,

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30. She was a woman of forty, not at all bad-looking, fat and buxom, with black eyes and eyebrows, good-natured from fatness and laziness, and absurdly bashful

31. "Nastasya, don't be bashful, but help me--that's it," and in spite of Raskolnikov's resistance he changed his linen

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32. This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of hair, This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning,

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33. "It's so hard I'm afraid to try," said Meg, grateful, but bashful in the presence of the accomplished young lady beside her

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34. If he asked her to deliver a Latin oration, it would not have seemed a more impossible task to bashful Beth, but there was no place to run to, no Jo to hide behind now, and the poor boy looked so wistfully at her that she bravely resolved to try

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35. He patted her back soothingly, and finding that she was recovering, followed it up by a bashful kiss or two, which brought Jo round at once

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36. There were slow boys and bashful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the 'Bhaer-garten', though some people predicted that his admission would ruin the school

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37. She looked down as she said this, amiably bashful, with only one side glance at her companion to observe its effect on her

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38. by his fellow servants, used to eye me in that bashful confused way,

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39. view of the nuptial bed, could give more bashful blushes to unblemished

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40. My client, an innately bashful man, would be the last man in the world to do anything ungentlemanly which injured modesty could object to or cast a stone at a girl who took the wrong turning when some dastard, responsible for her condition, had worked his own sweet will on her

41. And behind the woman comes a little nigger girl and two little nigger boys without anything on but tow-linen shirts, and they hung on to their mother's gown, and peeped out from behind her at me, bashful, the way they always do

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42. "What a funny, bashful mountaineer!" Mr

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43. had clapped a livery upon him; and his chief employ was, after being shewn my lodgings, to bring and carry letters or messages between his master and me; and as the situation of all kept ladies is not the fittest to inspire respect, even to the meanest of mankind, and, perhaps, less of it from the most ignorant, I could not help observing that this lad, who was, I suppose, acquainted with my relation to his master by his fellow servants, used to eye me in that bashful confused way, more expressive, more moving and readier caught at by our sex, than any other declarations whatever: my figure had, it seems, struck him, and modest and innocent as he was, he did not himself know that the pleasure he took in looking at me was love, or desire; but his eyes, naturally wanton, and now inflamed with passion, spoke a great deal more than he durst have imagined they did

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44. No real virgin, in short, in view of the nuptial bed, could give more bashful blushes to unblemished innocence, than I did to a sense of guilt; and indeed I loved Charles too truly not to feel severely that I did not deserve him

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45. In a city that wasn’t bashful about sinning, Graham had kicked off a religious revival

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46. She still seemed bashful

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47. innocent as a babe himself, and bashful too,’ answered the

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48. At first he was bashful about the notoriety which the newspaper caused, but later greatly pleased, for he found it the means of his getting into touch with other collectors in all parts of the world with whom he now corresponded and swapped duplicates

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49. She was a woman of forty, not at all bad‐looking, fat and buxom, with black eyes and eyebrows, good‐natured from fatness and laziness, and absurdly bashful

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50. "Nastasya, don't be bashful, but help me—that's it," and in spite of Raskolnikov's resistance he changed his linen

51. Dorothea's face had become animated, and as it beamed on Rosamond very close to her, she felt something like bashful timidity before a superior, in the presence of this self-forgetful ardor

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52. Then Gilpin looked at his shoes, got bashful, and jingled his keys to leave

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53. Instantly, he recognised this touch, this tender, bashful touch, and regained his senses

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54. ” Joe looked at her warmly, but he was clearly bashful

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55. Willy was bashful, awful bashful

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56. Ever’body was out but Elsie Graves, and Elsie wasn’t bashful at all

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57. A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior whalemen!

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58. But with confused and bashful air,

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59. ‘Nastasya, don’t be bashful, but help me—that’s it,’ and in spite of 242 of 967

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60. bashful face! Really, bashful

61. Bashful! of Katerina Nikolaevna Ahmakov ! Bashful and chaste, I swear ! More than chaste— childlike !—that's your face ! I have been astounded by it all this time, and have been asking myself, is the woman so, too ? I know now that you are very clever, but do you know, at first I thought you were a simpleton ? You have a bright and lively mind, but without embellishments of any sort

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62. "Children indeed! Why, for over a year he was innocent as a babe himself, and bashful too," answered the old man

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63. To her, the epithet of it girl," pure and simple, was pre-eminently applicable, for in her the only new features were a new and "young-lady-like" arrangement of her thick flaxen hair and a youthful bosom—the latter an addition which at once caused her great joy and made her very bashful

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64. Not that he was shy or bashful

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65. "Was it your own idea?" he asked Liza, in a friendly and, as it were, bashful way

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66. And so he did; he was not bashful, but confessed everything at once to Vasya

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67. Moreover, I had always been a shy and bashful boy, and of late had begun to be particularly shy with women

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68. That made the Duck feel so ashamed and bashful that when she saw a fish under the Water, she did not try to catch it, and so died of hunger

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69. She knelt as straight as it was possible to kneel in front of the image; all the members of her body were mathematically symmetrical; her feet behind her pressed with the tips of her bast shoes at the same angle against the stone floor; her body was bent back, to the extent to which her stooping shoulders permitted her to do so; her hands were quite regularly placed below her abdomen; her head was thrown back, and her face, with an expression of bashful commiseration, wrinkled, and with a dim glance, was turned straight toward the image with the scarf

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70. “A nice guest indeed to be sitting with!” I thought to myself when a footman brought in tea and Dimitri had five times to beg Bezobiedoff to have a cup, for the reason that the bashful guest thought it incumbent upon him always to refuse it at first and to say, “No, help yourself

71. In her seventeenth year, George Warrener, just received into a subordinate position in a New York banking and broking firm, began to pay her his bashful attentions

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72. The brightness of the room, the effect produced by the brilliant color of the decorations, and the atmosphere of livableness and charm did not dazzle the guest who entered—because she simply could not see! Her excitement was such that it caused a sort of blindness to fall on her, although she had never thought herself bashful or shy

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