Sentence example with the word 'timorous'

timorous

afraid, cowardly, fainthearted, henhearted, milksoppish, panicky, self-conscious, shuddering, stammering, undaring, yellow

Definition adj. timid by nature or revealing timidity

Last update: December 3, 2015


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She is a timorous girl.   [adjective]

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Bleating noises from bureaucrats in Brussels who see their expense accounts under threat only tend to frighten children of a very timorous disposition.   [adjective]

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Hereupon a timorous guard was placed upon the fortification, where, dazed with fear, they became ever more dispirited day by day.   [adjective]

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The timorous young man who accompanied him remonstrated upon the danger of the attempt, but Edward was determined.   [adjective]

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I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.   [adjective]

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Sarah took a timorous step forward and spilled the details of their plight in one long ramble, barely stopping for breath.   [Please select]

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The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail.   [Please select]

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"To the discreet belong the spoils" was written in every timorous step and stealthy movement.   [Please select]

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The hyaena is of a timorous nature, seldom, if ever, showing fight.   [Please select]

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I frightened a chit of a schoolgirl, a plain, little, unformed, timorous creature.   [Please select]

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