How to Use gun-shy in a Sentence

gun-shy

adjective

• Of all the studios, Warner perhaps has the best reason to be gun-shy.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
• His recent comments paint a picture of a gun-shy quarterback hesitant to throw the ball downfield.
  — ABC News, 8 Sep. 2024
• City staff members and officials remain a little gun-shy, Hazeltine said.
  — Susan Gill Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2025
• The Guardians, typically stealthy and deliberate and gun-shy and sometimes patient and risk-averse to a fault, certainly shot their shot.
  — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
• The writers gave The X-Files an award back in 1996 when the overall Academy was gun-shy about voting for it in Outstanding Drama.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2025