(1) Though the thought of a Panama team listening to the USA team huddle coyly sharing their secrets is a rather sweet thought.
(2) With the Eiffel Tower poking coyly over the horizon, it was the most French of settings for the latest instalment in Britain's spectacular summer of sport, in the wake of Andy Murray's Wimbledon, the Lions' win, and Justin Rose's victory in the US Open.
(3) "You might try to characterise this as a change of mind," says Lyons coyly.
(4) This is too coyly referred to as the “social dimension” of higher education.
(5) With Murdoch himself present, Cameron gave an early-evening keynote speech to a "CEO summit" organised by the Times – although the event programme published on the newspaper's website coyly described him as an unnamed "senior cabinet minister".
(6) For three years Heathrow has coyly danced around the issue like a spurned lover: dumped and bruised by the incoming government, why would it express its desires so forthrightly again?
(7) Not coyly hinted at, as had been the way previously, but dealt with head-on in the most matter-of-fact manner.
(8) I think I may have been known to wear an Iron Maiden T-shirt," he adds coyly.
(9) A younger supporter, Lauren Wojtowicz – who smiled coyly and refused to answer when asked who she voted for on Tuesday but admitted she wasn’t a Republican – said that she came away from Kasich’s victory speech “quite impressed”.
(10) Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton coyly batted away questions over any White House succession plan during a mutually appreciative interview on Sunday.
(11) Advertising, of course, is not allowed on the BBC, so the corporation was coyly insisting that the product had not actually been named – it is full name is Duchy Originals.
(12) He was eventually handed a 60-day ban, lifted on appeal, for saying of the match official: "Every time he signalled a foul he looked over coyly at me.
(13) At the end of his reign in 2009, he coyly described his role to Mark Lawson as "that sort of American 'showrunner' position", but provided a helpful job description: "To establish the tone of the show."
(14) Visits to nearby fast-food shops are banned, even on the way home, and hugging has been ruled unacceptable lest, as Wilshaw coyly puts it, "boys use it as an opportunity to do things they shouldn't do".
(15) The IMF coyly attributes the recovery to "easier credit conditions and renewed confidence".
(16) It has also been one of the most coyly sidestepped topics by the company's executives.
(17) Thank you, thank you Dave,” she trembled, coyly blowing him a kiss while the Tory backbenchers half-heartedly cheered in an effort to make this union seem something other than the product of a fevered and desperate imagination.
(18) Karimova has coyly refused to rule out a presidential bid herself, even though it has always been a long shot.
(19) Watching David and Ed coyly promise to nominate each other as their second voting preference in Jon Snow's Channel 4 television debate (cruelly scheduled against Blair's book launch on the Beeb) she seemed to be on to something.
(20) Coyly underselling its appeal There’s a bit in Evans’s introduction to the manifesto where she says “Ukip’s policies have been developed not to catch the public imagination”, which seems an odd way to go about attracting votes.
Shyly
Definition:
(adv.) In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Physically, he has a sort of wiry poise, often standing on the balls of his feet, but there is also something diffident, almost shyly polite, about him.
(2) As Mahoi visited one afternoon, Amidu waved shyly as Hawa bounded up, forcing her step-grandmother to shout out a reminder about the “no touching” rule in force in the town.
(3) These sort of questions shine shyly through the action of the film all the way through,” the critic wrote.
(4) Gudrun, 72, peers shyly from her voluminous hood and says while she loves Iceland – its cleanliness, beauty, the proximity of hot springs, volcanoes, glaciers – it can't possibly be the best place in the world for women "because we don't get the same salary as men".
(5) (Because obviously, no one minds if you win or lose a game of football – and at the full-time whistle, after meditating for a while, the players pool their wages with the fans, before shyly retiring to their modest homes and ascetic lifestyles.)
(6) Photograph: Caterina Clerici “How much is a photo?” a South Asian lady in shalwar kameez asks, her husband shyly observing Saira next to her.
(7) Moments earlier, the girls had been saying shyly that they did not have any views about the 12 cooling towers and Britain's tallest chimney, which pumps out the country's largest single carbon footprint right in front of their kitchen window.
(8) Indeed, he began a farewell tour, waving shyly as crowds of supporters, two thousand of them at the opening rally in Cardiff, chanted his name.
(9) Amid the hanging flower baskets and stone fountains of a picturesque small market town in Provence, the new young face of the French far right meandered from stall to stall, smiling shyly.
(10) "You should let your wife speak for herself," a bearded activist tells an older man who smiles shyly.
(11) The tepid sunshine wobbles in, polishes his shabby brogues, moves shyly across the surface of the dressing table.
(12) He groped about for ages and then grinned shyly, 'Aiya, I forgot to bring it.'
(13) I asked one of the quieter children for his thoughts, and he pondered silently for a moment, shyly biting his finger.
(14) Deputy editor John Pringle remembered Astor “listening attentively with a smile on his handsome, boyish face, occasionally brushing his hair off his forehead with a characteristic gesture, and sometimes intervening shyly but effectively”.
(15) Channel 4's controller of film and drama stayed shyly in her seat as the cast and crew of Slumdog Millionaire took to the stage at Los Angeles's Kodak Theatre last February to collect the Oscar for best film – one of the movie's eight Academy awards.
(16) "We stayed in touch so we could work together on fundraising and activism," she tells me shyly, "and now we will get married in the summer."
(17) I love her and she is my good match," he says in a soft accent, smiling shyly.
(18) Are you ready?” Four little boys, dressed in khaki trousers and polo shirts, came in together and huddled shyly.
(19) "As much as you deserve," was how Dave had reassuringly put it over their anniversary supper, "a take-away kebab," Nick shyly confided.
(20) The 33-year-old smiled shyly as she noticed my camera, before stopping as if to mount the bicycle to check its height.