How to use "bashful" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "bashful" in popular movie and book plots

  • Attired as a common rustic, O'Connor is introduced by Dr Rosy as "Honest Humphrey Hum", of a naive and bashful temperament.  - St Patrick's Day (play)
  • In the meantime Andrew meets Dorothy and when she thinks his name is Blinker, he is too bashful to deny it.  - Alarm Clock Andy
  • One day, he picks up a wallet at a dining hall and meets its owner: sweet, innocent and bashful Ani.  - Two Faces of My Girlfriend
  • When he arrives, the press expects him to marry her, so Speed prompts the bashful Jim into romancing Glory.  - Professional Sweetheart
  • Hearing that he is staying a bashful Abby can not help but smile.  - Strange Bedfellows (ER)
  • Lord Varney, however, is in love with Kitty himself but is extremely bashful and shy.  - Sweet Kitty Bellairs
  • Laura turns out to be a beautiful but bashful girl just beginning college, and eager to do the right thing for everyone.  - Undead and Unappreciated
  • where Bill and a suddenly bashful Marge wed.  - Barnacle Bill (1941 film)
  • Another client, the bashful Dr Hilti, flees in horror and Geschwitz tries unsuccessfully to hang herself.  - Pandora's Box (play)
  • 18-year-old Harry (Norman Reedus), is an innocent, bashful burger boy who lives with his overly attentive mother Kate.  - Six Ways to Sunday

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