"shy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

shy adjetivo

shy + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 30
shy smile • shy man • shy girl • shy boy • shy person • ...
verbo + shy
Kolokacji: 5
feel shy • fall shy • fight shy • look shy • stop shy
adverbio + shy
Kolokacji: 19
painfully shy • extremely shy • suddenly shy • somewhat shy • twice shy • ...
(1) painfully, terribly
Kolokacji: 2
1. extremely shy = niezwykle nieśmiały extremely shy
2. suddenly shy = nagle nieśmiały suddenly shy
3. twice shy = dwakroć nieśmiały twice shy
4. generally shy = powszechnie nieśmiały generally shy
5. oddly shy = dziwnie nieśmiały oddly shy
6. notoriously shy = notorycznie nieśmiały notoriously shy
7. naturally shy = z natury nieśmiały naturally shy
8. normally shy = normalnie nieśmiały normally shy
  • Dingoes are normally shy of humans and avoid encounters with them.
  • The normally shy director told the exhibitors: "You are really the true performers in the movie business, the ones who put on the show for us.
  • Lately Sara had become quite an eavesdropper, an unlikely habit for a normally shy, private young woman.
  • This reunion is what propels the normally shy and private me forward.
  • Andersen now thinks the beer was talking when Ann, normally shy, said, "If you're a real runner, what are you doing in a place like this?"
  • It is normally shy but will bite if disturbed, frightened, or captured.
  • Makoto is normally shy around people, but is attracted to Shizuru for her childlike appearance and behavior.
  • Even coyotes, normally shy and furtive, are just about everywhere in the region, wildlife ecologists and biologists said.
  • The normally shy and untrusting grey jungle fowl can be spotted here.
  • Yet even when other normally shy creatures feel free to make spectacles of themselves, the jaguar remains aloof.
9. pathologically shy = patologicznie nieśmiały pathologically shy
10. hardly shy = ledwie nieśmiały hardly shy
11. incredibly shy = niewiarygodnie nieśmiały incredibly shy
12. famously shy = doskonale nieśmiały famously shy
13. surprisingly shy = zadziwiająco nieśmiały surprisingly shy
14. intensely shy = ogromnie nieśmiały intensely shy
(3) somewhat, slightly, pretty
Kolokacji: 3
shy + preposición
Kolokacji: 8
shy of • shy about • shy with • shy in • shy around • ...

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