(1) I voted for stability, for the fight against terrorism,” said Kaouther Shili, in the Mourouj neighbourhood of Tunis.
(2) For us the ‘Chinese dream’ is just a dream.” This was a particularly pointed attack on Xi’s own roseate notion of the “Chinese dream” – which the president has relied upon to inspire his people forward on what he calls “the road to rejuvenation”, and to galvanise their nationalism against the various “hostile foreign forces” ( jingwai didui shili ) that he regards as a threat to China’s continuing rise.
(3) "We have sent 10 doctors to the villages to explain the situation to residents," said Zheng Shili, propaganda director of Longchang government.
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.