How to Use timorous in a Sentence

timorous

adjective
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  • He spoke with a timorous voice.
  • In the shootout, Bravo dived to his right to stop weak penalty kicks by Quaresma and Moutinho, then switched sides to save Nani’s timorous shot.
    — The Associated Press, New York Times, 28 June 2017
  • All artists, even those who appear to be timorous, quavering messes, have a core of steel.
    — David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Boston didn’t so much guard James as stalk him, and without the timorous doomstruck look that had hung over Toronto every time James got the ball.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 14 May 2018
  • The clash of egos in the struggle to achieve something bracingly innovative wasn’t for the timorous.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019
  • But Philip doubled down on the value of a rough-and-tumble education, arguing that Gordonstoun would be the best place for his timorous son.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Powell, who has repeatedly told the president that his aides are too timorous and should be taking stronger steps, has taken some of her criticism public since the meeting.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Yet something about their emotional makeup allowed Reichl and Levine to muddle through circumstances that would have felled more timorous souls.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2019
  • The former Indiana governor excoriated the timorous, risk-averse mindset that captured much of the elite in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • Where the smaller, plainer red-brown hens were predictable in their behavior, usually timorous and boring, Mr. Rooster was unpredictable and anything but boring.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • The trick for Biden and the Democrats is to welcome timorous conservatives like Sasse back to the world of defenders of democracy without demanding humiliating public confessions from them.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Orange County’s chief health officer quit after receiving death threats and little backing from a timorous Board of Supervisors.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • There will always be a name to erase or a symbol to obliterate, and there will always be timorous functionaries willing to accommodate the ideological enforcers demanding it.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 June 2021
  • Yet despite her commitment to the role — and the generally fine supporting performances — this timorous tale sidesteps uncomfortable realities in favor of soothing whimsy and preordained uplift.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018

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