sheepish

Example Sentences

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I felt sheepish when my partner caught me sneaking a cookie shortly after I had encouraged him to forgo dessert so we could “be healthy together.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

So why is he sitting on an aisle seat in the second-back row, away from all his pals, looking sheepish?

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025

“I have absolutely no problem walking into the woods and walking straight,” the first-time feature director says, with a sheepish smile, about his relative screenwriting inexperience.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025

No longer does someone need to feel sheepish about getting a less expensive imitation.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2025

Had the lab paused to direct itself at this obvious experimental goal, it would have been the first to disintegrate lithium, not a sheepish second.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik