Examples of shyly

• Later he admitted, rather shyly at first (he imagined his sons would laugh), to the importance of prayer in his life.

• At all events, it would be looked upon shyly.

• If they are shyly revealing themselves, where are they hiding?

• I say this somewhat shyly.

• They rather shyly admitted that they had.

• Suwisal recalls brief memories of the piano and a young girl shyly peering out behind the drapes at him and his aunts.

• The championship begins shyly even though the team does not appear very much inclined to be creative in the offensive phase.

• He puckers a suddenly lipsticked mouth, crosses his knees in a shyly feminine fashion and walks away seductively.