‘A dozen girls in ruffled skirts stand, shifting their weight from foot to foot, gazing shyly at their reflections in the mirror.’
‘Some children approached him shyly, accompanied by their parents.’
‘He glances around shyly, perhaps looking for someone.’
‘I look shyly at the man at my side.’
‘The sun glances shyly over the vaulted roof of the cave.’
‘This guy asked me shyly for a glass of water.’
‘Even she, on her fifth try for the presidency, has shyly brought her boyfriend to the fore.’
‘Shyly, almost painfully, he tells her that he loves her.’
‘Beside roaring factories and in sequestered nooks on which deer and bear peer shyly from nearby leafy coverts, there have sprung up innumerable gardens.’
‘Children peer shyly from dark homes.’
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