retiring person
Example Sentences
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He is a very retiring person who was being thrust into the limelight.
From Scientific American • Jun. 24, 2022
She was a shy, retiring person who would rather sit around the kitchen table than go out in public.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2018
"This is not a shy and retiring person," said Steven Frates, director of research at the Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2010
And if Goetz was a shy, retiring person as he claimed, why was he parading around town with reporters, making pronouncements on the need for law-and-order?
From Time Magazine Archive
Mary Llewellyn, the stewardess, generally a quiet and retiring person, was driven into a fit of hysterics by the concatenation of horrors that all at once surrounded them.
From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
