adverb
definition
In a shy manner.
Examples of shyly in a Sentence
Donnie stood shyly behind her.
Alondra smiled shyly but her eyes shined.
Donnie smiled shyly as Fred continued.
She smiled up at him shyly.
Martha smiled shyly, smoothing her red skirt.
Natasha moved a few steps forward and stopped shyly, still holding her handkerchief, and listened to what the housekeeper was saying.
Adrienne blushed and glanced shyly at Brandon.
The moon peeked shyly over the dunes and moved searching fingers of dim light across the dunes.
Tammy regarded her suspiciously, ducking her head shyly.
Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in silence at Princess Anna Mikhaylovna.
I have felt a bud "shyly doff her green hood and blossom with a silken burst of sound," while the icy fingers of the snow beat against the window-panes.
While Howie stood shyly by the door, she boldly stepped forward and introduced herself.
Lisa winked at her and Tammy ducked her head, smiling shyly.
The mummers (some of the house serfs) dressed up as bears, Turks, innkeepers, and ladies--frightening and funny--bringing in with them the cold from outside and a feeling of gaiety, crowded, at first timidly, into the anteroom, then hiding behind one another they pushed into the ballroom where, shyly at first and then more and more merrily and heartily, they started singing, dancing, and playing Christmas games.
Dean gave the girl a hug as she shyly took Franny's outstretched hand.
She was shyly paraded forward and introduced by a beaming Fred O'Connor.
She met his gaze and smiled back shyly.
He walked shyly and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed field under fire, as he had done at the head of the Kursk regiment at Schon Grabern--and he would have found that easier.
I only say that I'll certainly go with you, said Petya shyly.
At that moment, with soft steps, the countess came in shyly, in her cap and velvet gown.
The red-nosed Captain Timokhin, formerly Dolokhov's squadron commander, but now from lack of officers a battalion commander, shyly entered the shed followed by an adjutant and the regimental paymaster.
After that he avoided Dessalles and the countess who caressed him and either sat alone or came timidly to Princess Mary, or to Natasha of whom he seemed even fonder than of his aunt, and clung to them quietly and shyly.
N'ayez pas peur, on ne vous fera pas de mal, * he added shyly and affectionately, touching the boy's hand.
Clutching both, tightly, in my eight year old hands, I shuffled shyly toward the wiry figure waiting for his executive cases.