adjective
Examples of timid in a Sentence
Another timid voice came from the hallway.
She suddenly felt guilty and grew timid on catching the expression of his face and eyes.
She responded to him with raw hunger, no longer timid as she had been when he kissed her the day before.
So he sat there trembling and afraid; for he was a timid, bashful man and did not like to be noticed.
When I was a very little child I used to sit in my mother's lap all the time, because I was very timid, and did not like to be left by myself.
He glanced at her with timid surprise.
And many other stories are told of this man's great love and pity for the timid creatures which lived in the fields and woods.
She'd proven as lively in bed as she was timid outside of it.
His bold and vigorous language aptly expressed the thoughts which had long been secretly stirring Russian minds, and were now beginning to find a timid utterance at home.
The voice was strangely timid.
Archbishop Edmund Rich was timid and inexperienced; his successor, Boniface of Savoy, was a kinsman of the queen; Grosseteste, the most eminent of the bishops, died in 1253, when he was on the point of becoming a popular hero.
Both of them spun at Hannah's timid voice. Kiki was the first to regain himself.
The unequivocal stand of Polk and his party in favour of the immediate annexation of Texas and the adoption of a vigorous policy in Oregon contrasted favourably with the timid vacillations of Henry Clay and the Whigs.
I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
Three months later Stilicho himself and the chief ministers of his party were treacherously slain in pursuance of an order extracted from the timid and jealous Honorius; and in the disturbances which followed the wives and children of the barbarian foederati throughout Italy were slain.
It is hesitant, easily frightened, timid, tends to avoid certain persons or things.
Sounds like she lost some of that timid field mousiness.
The girl's voice was timid and raspy, no more than a whisper.
Timid by nature, aware of his impending doom, and ax times justly dissatisfied with himself, he tries all means of reconciling himself to the idea of suicide.
The timid viscacha (Lagostomus trichodactylus), living in colonies, often with the burrowing owl, and digging deep under ground like the American prairie dog, was almost the only quadruped to be seen upon these immense open plains.
Neither are there any dangerous species of Carnivora, which are represented by the timid puma (Felis concolor), three species of wildcats, three of the fox, two of Conepatus, a weasel, sea-otter and six species of seal.
Determined in her faith and proud in her meekness, in opposition to the timid counsels of the military leaders, to the interested delays of the courtiers, to the scruples of the experts and the quarrelling of the doctors, she quoted her voices, who had, she said, commissioned her to raise the siege of Orleans and to conduct the gentle dauphin to Reims, there to be crowned.
The Department of Health's response is a timid bleat, proving once again the great influence of the Pharmas over Government.
Her central argument being that a general strike is not a sterile demand, artificially created in the minds of timid trade union bureaucrats.
Far from the timid and self-conscious child she had expected, Jonathan was both confident and demonstrative.
These men and their followers were never weary of ridiculing the timid caution of the aged statesman who sacrificed everything to perpetuate an inglorious peace and derisively nicknamed his adherents " Night-caps " (a term subsequently softened into " Caps "), themselves adopting the sobriquet " Hats," from the threecornered hat worn by officers and gentlemen, which was considered happily to hit off the manly self-assertion of the opposition.
However, it is usually refracted through the prism of bourgeois liberalism and is thus timid in its methods and aims.
Looking timid behind a huge guitar on a vast stage he mumbles his way through acoustic tracks across his four solo albums.
Since Julie was timid, she simply said, "Ahem, you forgot something," when Tim left his book behind.
Tina has evolved from a timid and kind child to a rambunctious and angsty teenager.
Not for the shy or timid, bold and bright colors are trademarks for punks.
It's not a look for the timid, but bold pants stole the spotlight at many a show during Fashion Week.
Love matches for Gemini aren't for the timid or faint of heart.
Their thigh-high selection seems timid compared to everything else they offer.
It was the course that would readily suggest itself to a man of timid nature who wished to secure himself against such a fate as Wolsey's.
Unfortunately, the timid way in which it was done made as ineffaceable an impression on Kruger even as the surrender after Majuba.
By repeated discharges upon these they gradually expend this marvellous force; after which, being defenceless, they become timid, and approach the edge for shelter, when they fall an easy prey to the harpoon.
He also outlawed the whole body of the clergy, save the timid remnant who promised to disregard the papal commands.
Rousseau (Contrat social) held that in the pre-social state man was unwarlike and even timid.
Politically he did not do much to stave off the coming Revolution, and his establishment of provincial assemblies was only a timid application of Turgot's great scheme for the administrative reorganization of France.
Alondra offered a timid handshake, but Dulce must have thought it was an invitation to a wrestling match.
Willis is the voice of a mischievous con-artist raccoon named R.J., and Shandling voices a timid turtle named Verne.
Can early experience with humans make lambs less timid and stressed?
Tories in recent years have become too timid about saying how we want to improve society.
He knows he is by nature a rather timid young man.
Prior to that, in her naturally timid disposition, she might have felt at a disadvantage within the existing family relationships.
In the wild state it is gregarious, associating in herds of ten, twenty or more individuals, and, though it may under certain circumstances become dangerous, it is generally inoffensive and even timid, fond of shade and solitude and the neighbourhood of water.
All such solitary bulls, as their colloquial name indicates, are of a spiteful disposition; and it appears that with the majority the inducement to live apart is due to their partiality for cultivated crops, into which the more timid females are afraid to venture.
Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
The same old stateliness, the same cleanliness, the same stillness reigned there, and inside there was the same furniture, the same walls, sounds, and smell, and the same timid faces, only somewhat older.