Example Sentences

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“I came very late and timorously to the uses of power,” she wrote in her diary in 1968.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2021

We strut as a bully in the world but cower timorously at home.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2017

Now Lochner watched as an elderly woman timorously walked up to one of the transport policemen and inquired when the next train was due for West Berlin.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2011

For the last 40 years of his life he dwelled in a small rented room on Chicago's North Side, from which he would timorously sally forth to collect street trash.

From Time Magazine Archive

His pale-gray eyes flitted timorously from face to face, and turned quickly away again when he caught anyone’s eye.

From "1984" by George Orwell