How to Use timorous in a Sentence

timorous

adjective

• He spoke with a timorous voice.
• All artists, even those who appear to be timorous, quavering messes, have a core of steel.
  — David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
• The clash of egos in the struggle to achieve something bracingly innovative wasn’t for the timorous.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019
• The lesser among them, the timorous, the doubtful, and the wavering, stood back, watching, waiting for some greater sign, savoring their doubts.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
• Boston didn’t so much guard James as stalk him, and without the timorous doomstruck look that had hung over Toronto every time James got the ball.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 14 May 2018
• In the shootout, Bravo dived to his right to stop weak penalty kicks by Quaresma and Moutinho, then switched sides to save Nani’s timorous shot.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 28 June 2017
• Powell, who has repeatedly told the president that his aides are too timorous and should be taking stronger steps, has taken some of her criticism public since the meeting.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
• Yet something about their emotional makeup allowed Reichl and Levine to muddle through circumstances that would have felled more timorous souls.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2019
• But Philip doubled down on the value of a rough-and-tumble education, arguing that Gordonstoun would be the best place for his timorous son.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 Mar. 2017
• There will always be a name to erase or a symbol to obliterate, and there will always be timorous functionaries willing to accommodate the ideological enforcers demanding it.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 June 2021
• Orange County’s chief health officer quit after receiving death threats and little backing from a timorous Board of Supervisors.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
• The former Indiana governor excoriated the timorous, risk-averse mindset that captured much of the elite in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• The trick for Biden and the Democrats is to welcome timorous conservatives like Sasse back to the world of defenders of democracy without demanding humiliating public confessions from them.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Dec. 2020
• The hospital industry has been timorous about transparency since the first large-scale quality survey was conducted by the American College of Surgeons back in 1919.
  — Michael L. Millenson and J. Matthew Austin, STAT, 24 May 2022