retiring

In a sentence

Six example sentences with retiring, each labelled with its topic.

• The gallery's most retiring painter refused every interview and let a single wall label speak for thirty years of work.

  Art

• She wrote of a retiring clerk who blushed when thanked and left every party before anyone noticed he had come.

  Literature

• The team's best rebounder is oddly retiring, pointing at teammates whenever a camera turns toward him after a win.

  Basketball

• The band's bassist is so retiring that she stands behind the amplifier and lets the singer take every bow.

  Music

• The chemist was so retiring that her students presented the discovery while she sat at the back of the hall.

  Science

• Psychologists separate a retiring temperament from social anxiety, since a quiet child may be perfectly content at the edge.

  Psychology

Found in these word lists

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More GMAT words

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