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Six example sentences with timorous, each labelled with its topic.
The timorous clerk in the novel rehearses his resignation speech for two hundred pages and never delivers a word.
Literature
Her first audition was timorous, the bow barely touching the string, and the panel asked her to start again louder.
Music
A timorous pitch invites hard questions, so she practiced answering the worst three until her voice stopped wobbling.
Startups
The timorous rookie passed up three open shots in the first quarter, and the coach benched him until he stopped hesitating.
Basketball
The candidate gave a timorous answer on taxes, glancing at his notes twice before saying he would study the question.
Politics
Timorous children often speak in a whisper at school, and a patient teacher can coax the volume up over a term.
Psychology
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