timid

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Can early experience with humans make lambs less timid and stressed?

Modifies a noun

• creature: They are timid creatures that spend most of their time on the ground.
• soul: A more timid soul might throw in the towel in the face of all this crap.
• cat: Never put a shy timid cat with an aggressive overbearing cat.
• voice: GIRL: [ very timid high pitched voice ] Who is there?
• reform: Venezuela shows that in its present state, the capitalist system cannot even allow the timid reforms Chavez wants to impose.
• attempt: The Kyoto Protocol is a timid attempt to reduce the impact of climate change.

Modifying Another Word

• too: Tories in recent years have become too timid about saying how we want to improve society.
• rather: He knows he is by nature a rather timid young man.
• naturally: Prior to that, in her naturally timid disposition, she might have felt at a disadvantage within the existing family relationships.
• fairly: In the game's current state Race Driver 3 seems fairly timid across its expansive range.
• quite: Pets can be brave or quite timid, just like us.
• very: GIRL: [ very timid high pitched voice ] Who is there?

Used with adjective complement

• seem: At the time, we remarked how the deer seemed even more timid than usual.
• feel: I wonder how many of us here tonight are feeling timid about the work we've been called to?
• become: Tories in recent years have become too timid about saying how we want to improve society.
• look: Looking timid behind a huge guitar on a vast stage he mumbles his way through acoustic tracks across his four solo albums.
• remain: They are largely unaccustomed to man and have remained fairly timid.

Preposition: in

• face: The referees found themselves too timid in the face of hockey and Selwyn pressure.

Preposition: with

• stranger: Her companion Jess is white and gray, 11 years old and just a little timid with strangers.