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shyly

[ UK /ʃˈa‍ɪli/ ]
[ US /ˈʃaɪɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a shy or timid or bashful manner
    he smiled shyly

How To Use shyly In A Sentence

  • Some children approached him shyly, accompanied by their parents.
  • I caught my first glimpses of wild rock wallaroos peering at us shyly from the safety of a rocky ledge.
  • Then, suddenly, as if she had just remembered her, Mother Drovski called Marie, who came shyly from the corner and stood before the two strange women. Katrinka: The Story of a Russian Child
  • There were four or five pictures -- one, a bass-relief of Endymion, deep asleep, yet conscious in his dream that the moon is peeping shyly over his polished shoulder, had been copied from a famous original by Sophie herself. Bressant
  • A ruddy, white-haired old gentleman, cordial, cultivated, and a little shyly if gladly reminiscent, received me in the office of his ship chandlering store in Bay Street, Charleston. The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
  • On this morning she was softly and shyly radiant. Her eyes were dreamily bright, her cheeks genuine 15)peachblow, her expression a happy one, 16)tinged with reminiscence.
  • Tor Edgar is a giant man peering out shyly from behind glasses bequeathed by John Lennon.
  • She stopped short; and then added shyly, with a kind of anxiousness in her wide dark gaze: "An expression, ma'am -- for Heaven. V. V.'s Eyes
  • At first, they assemble a short distance away, shyly facing the adults, who wave, smile, say hello.
  • Uniformed schoolkids rush out to try for rolling high fives; farther outside town, they just stare shyly.
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