"shy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Tom Watson, a month shy of his 40th birthday, was only two shots off the lead and playing the sixth hole when the storm hit.
- Their house, bought in 2003, is just months shy of being paid for.
- The rookie netminder was a few months shy of his 27th birthday.
- A few months shy of 80, she could not stand without her walker.
- After shy months of enjoying each other's company, when they'd finally made love for the first time, it had seemed entirely natural.
- He was a few months shy of his twenty-third birthday.
- That rehearsal was a few months shy of 50 years ago.
- Gipson, a month shy of his 20th birthday, was devastated.
- But a few months shy of graduation, Woods, an honor student, dropped out.
- Actually, it left me only a couple of months shy of being an expert.
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