How To Use Sheepish In A Sentence

The evidence she’d gathered at the beach had already arrived, delivered by a young tech who’d sheepishly entered the den of the legendary Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed. The Stone Monkey
I mutter a sheepish apology and get to my feet, smoothing my shirt and trying to flatten my hair.
I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer.
They were going to make me sit on the bimah," Kushner grins sheepishly. Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship
It was almost a prayer, but a prayer that included a thousand meanings Daylight strove to feign sheepishness, but his heart was singing too wild a song for mere playfulness. Chapter XXIV

I sheepishly meet his eyes for a moment and then focus on the hemp string around his neck.
Casey glanced at me now and shot me a lopsided, sheepish grin.
Some sheepish hands are raised and the rest are banished from his presence.
The auntie in front turned back and smiled at me while I smiled back sheepishly.
She also brought back Suzanne whose nose had returned to normal and who looked distinctly sheepish. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
The ship being cleared of Dingdong and his tups: Is there ever another sheepish soul left lurking on board? cried Panurge. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
You don't happen to be getting rid of any brown goatish/sheepish fake fur by chance, do you? Making Light: Open thread 136
He was smiling at me, looking uncharacteristically sheepish, and well, quite beautiful.
As a gratifyingly sheepish look passed over my hairdresser's face, I basked in my brief moment of triumph.
How can voters respond when their sheepish representatives can't even debate the matter in parliament?
They turned their heads and smiled sheepishly at her.
A sheepish flush tinged my cheeks and Diego mumbled something in rapid Spanish about the sister he never had.
Sheep templates were snatched up and youngsters have been far from sheepish in letting their imaginations run riot.
A giggle escaped Anna at the look of indignation on Kate's face and the sheepish grin on Ben's. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
I had to use a steak knife to cut a portion of spaghetti for Charlie and then myself, while he watched with a sheepish expression.
Even the look the animals adopt when chewing grass has led to the phrase "sheepish". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
They shared a long smooch before breaking out in sheepish grins. USATODAY.com - Hockey - Anaheim vs. Los Angeles
When I had realized that I had voiced my thought aloud, I turned a helpless shade of cherry red and smiled sheepishly.
I was a-'pretendin ',' miss, "she answered a little sheepishly;" I was tryin 'to see it like you do. A Little Princess
Because I've had this argument a couple of times, and the semi-literate conservatives are always sheepish, a little ashamed, of their lack of writing talent.
Andrew quickly stepped into action and stamped out the the smoldering tip of the curtain and looked back to glare at Char who was only smiling sheepishly.
The man's grin was sheepish and he rubbed his sore thigh that had painfully come into contact with the table's leg.
This New Year crept in sheepishly dragging behind it last year's pain. Happy? New Year
He rises with the occasion, and the sheepish "gaby" becomes the knowing practical man; his is now the voice of authority, and his comrades recant on the spot, acknowledge his superiority without a murmur, and perform "ko-tow" before the once despised man of undeveloped abilities. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
But I sometimes feel I'm doing something haram," she said sheepishly, using the Arabic word for banned. Barking Moonbat Early Warning System
Josh bore it all with an expression of sheepish delight. Harvest
she finished, giving a sheepish grin at her sister, who responded with a contented smile.
She swallowed her mouthful of food and grinned sheepishly.
She ran ahead, anxious for the secret to be unveiled, while Jude walked behind with a sheepish grin.
Many economists avoid talking about unemployment in public, adopting a rather sheepish tone when forced to confront the issue.
He straightened up sheepishly, while the instructor stopped the car with the brake.
His reply was a sheepish admission that even in time of war, boys will be boys.
He could only smile sheepishly when the heckles rose.
And the visitor would sheepishly admit both, his rascality and his obedience, by saying: ‘We are sarkari badmashes.’
In the intermission of the premiere, the guests looked distinctly sheepish.
Gabrielle finally cracked a small sheepish smile and slid down beside him gingerly.
Wallace often looks sheepish when admitting that his family has paid the price of his political success.
Feng Yun - thing heaved a deep sigh of relief and grinned sheepishly at his daughter.
We are compelled to let several English sailors pass before us, decked out in their white drill clothes, fresh, fat, and pink, like little sugar figures, who attitudinize in a sheepish manner around the shafts of the columns. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The equally sheepish assistant fiddled with the mouse and looked blankly at the screen.
Cafu has a hack at Cahill's ankles and trots sheepishly away as Culina lines up the free-kick.
I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer.
Before Brian (sheepishly) signed my book he asked me to hold his ciggie's still-burning dog-end. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban-shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front-folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waistcoats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails. Silas Marner
Raffles sat down again, lit a Sullivan, and gave what in any other man I should call a sheepish laugh. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
‘I was even a stripteaser in a very famous disco in Madrid,’ he grins, sheepishly, before patting a stomach that would make a washboard check for cellulite.
‘Actually, I'd never seen a bidet,’ confesses Jackman, slightly sheepish (he also rhymes it with ‘g'day’).
"Compared to what I do now," he said sheepishly, "those drawings were pretty primitive."
In the intermission of the premiere, the guests looked distinctly sheepish.
Sir C Bunbury Esq and 20 others, I do not mean that these persons wrote to me (they did not except Mr Lofft) but were often sending queries by servants &c which as I never would be seen if I could help it caused me to lose much time and slur a great deal of beautiful white paper, the private friendship and assistance I received from Bob amply paid me for my loss of time &c. and when they prevailed on me to be a Master (in that which is now Mrs Armstrong the Hatters shop) my Sheepishness increased so as to inspissate me, And besides it pleased God to take from me my Excelant wife. Letter 423
The guy with blonde streaks through black hair and wearing silver sunglasses grinned sheepishly, pushing his sunnies up onto his hair.
I still smile when recollecting his sheepish grin.
The groom's father and the bridegroom look sheepish and shake their heads.
He anticipates making whole wheat bigoli, bucatini, maccheroncelli, and pici which, Gallante says somewhat sheepishly, ‘look like joints’, with their tapered ends and twisted appearance when cooked.
Mary gave her a sheepish grin.
Field reporters interviewed soldiers who would smile broadly at the camera and sheepishly adjust their helmets as they asked if they could say ‘Hi’ to their mommas.
Uhura cleared her throat, and the officers stepped back, looking sheepishly at the vene-disrated Vulcan. Mind Meld
Mr Purtill also posed for a picture with Mr Major, managing to rustle up a sheepish grin.
He withdrew the hand with a glance at Breaker, then a sheepish grin. VITALS
Something debonnaire; which need not be separated from that awe and reverence, when they address a woman, which should shew the ardour of their passion, rather than the sheepishness of their nature; for who knows not that love delights in taming the lion-hearted? Clarissa Harlowe
Her name was Rebecca and she spent Friday looking rather sheepish and apologetic!
They laughed and hurried sheepishly downstairs, leaving the key on the reception desk in the hotel lobby.
Bob hangs his head and acts like he's sheepish and sorry, but he's entered into a world, within himself, from which he will not emerge.
A giggle escaped Anna at the look of indignation on Kate's face and the sheepish grin on Ben's. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Unexpectedly, the new Israeli government that had been discounted by so many commentators because it is not led by a politician with an extensive military experience (some experience Olmert had, like most Israelis, but he is no Sharon), is acting tough with the “international community” and, in particular, the Europeans, whose representatives emerged looking rather sheepish from the round of talks this week-end. “ Put up or shut up
This, she thought with a sheepish giggle to herself, was ridiculous.
I smiled sheepishly at Loganberry as I tried to hold my glass steady, wipe my jacket and shake his hand all at the same time.
Right away," he called sheepishly, muttering, "Be back in a moment," to Flint before hurrying to the table. Flint, the King
Don stood in the centre of what had become a riotous assembly, grinning sheepishly, enjoying the pats on the back.
I grinned sheepishly, suddenly feeling very warm inside my brother's jacket.
Looking sheepish when he finally noticed me standing at the counter, he laughed an apology.
Chemosh, and with Duke Ares sheepishly agrin in the net of Mulciber. Chivalry
I looked over at his mother to see a sheepish, almost embarrassed look on her face.
The television camera captured his sheepish grin as he stepped from the train.
He straightened up sheepishly, while the instructor stopped the car with the brake.
He withdrew the hand with a glance at Breaker, then a sheepish grin. VITALS
As I came through the door I was greeted by a sheepish looking hound.
And then he would bow in his paint-spattered coveralls, the drywall contractor with the dimpled chin and eyes as blue as the lake, and she would curtsy in her polyester slacks and Ban-Lon shirt, the housewife with the waves of hair and the smile that could light up the sky, and they would whirl around the living room while I watched from the kitchen, sheepish but happy. The Hanging Tree
George went in with the usual stack of boxes, and when he emerged I thought he had a rather sheepish look about him. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
sheepishly he handed her back the money
We love Apple in that sheepishly adoring way that causes us to want to run our fingers lovingly over our favorite Apple product when nobody is looking just because it makes us happy.
The groom's father and the bridegroom look sheepish and shake their heads.
“There aren't a lot of vegetarian options,” I'd said to Kirsten sheepishly, feeling shy because I had chosen a French-fry sandwich instead of the neon-green salad languishing under the sneeze shield at the salad bar. Why I Can't Be a Hare Krishna
First went Anoushka, who had barely unpacked her bags before she was taking baths in front of a still sheepish Cameron and signalling her readiness for wild, wanton sex.
Who can quarrel with a performance so vibrant with venal roguery and sheepish love?
Somewhat sheepishly, I reflected on how often I had felt that patients were a little sycophantic in their remarks at the end of a consultation.
When Ramin relayed my comments, the guards laughed, looked around sheepishly at the mess, and shrugged happily. Among the Hostage-Takers
I scrambled sheepishly off the sofa and ran to unbolt the front door. MY BABYSITTER HAS FANGS
She also brought back Suzanne whose nose had returned to normal and who looked distinctly sheepish. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
In a tone that can only be described as sheepish, she added, You can keep the pencil sharpeners. Archive 2007-08-01
But it was too late to deliver an apology and I understand a sheepish Paul has hardly been able to sleep since.
Um, we sort of disagree with Article 123.5 in the latest national budget sub-clause of Section 772.2, maybe," whined one Dem leader, sheepishly, before being smacked upside the head. Archive 2003-01-01
George went in with the usual stack of boxes, and when he emerged I thought he had a rather sheepish look about him. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
But their damage is what we notice and what he shews us, the seduction and bribery of fervent desire meshed with sheepish sorrow.
It was so far off her personal awareness sensors that the obelisk was the first artifact Abramowitz had ever physically encountered from the planet, an admission she made somewhat sheepishly considering her role as a cultural specialist attached to the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Creative Couplings
The young Klingon glanced away for an instant and nodded, his expression faintly sheepish. A Flag Full of Stars
I sheepishly put it on in the corner, thinking of all the black dance clothes I had at home.
The latter were big, hard-featured, sheepish-faced men, who stared at Saxon as if afraid of her. CHAPTER XVIII
Sots vieux, nouveaux, et sots de tous ages, _ "thus he scornfully declaimed," and as yokefellow with Dan Merlin in his thorn-bush, and with wise Salomon when he capered upon the high places of Chemosh, and with Duke Ares sheepishly agrin within the net of Chivalry
A black or malign disposition, an effeminate disposition; an hard inexorable disposition, a wild inhuman disposition, a sheepish disposition, a childish disposition; a blockish, a false, a scurril, a fraudulent, a tyrannical: what then? Meditations
The audience, all men, look sheepish, except for Mr. Winogrand, who stands with his Leica at the ready, his expression showing him concentrated on getting the best shot. The Self and Others
Slightly sheepish in responding to questions over being a regular church-goer, Tom is keen to avoid being presented as a holier-than-thou type.
Here, a sheepish young yakuza is ordered to kill his insane boss but things go awry when his elder disappears in a town full of loons, zombies, and halfwits.
Sheepishly, I picked myself up from the ground weakly, completely fulminating with rage at the laws of gravity.
Then his smile became a sheepish grin and his shoulders hunched in a giggle.
He took a large sip of his cerveza and watched another one of the prostitutes on la Calle de Montera get brushed off sheepishly by a passing tourist. Salvadora
Reaching over to put the light on, befuddled and stupid, I saw the dog, trembling and sheepish, dark eyes anxious in the lamplight. Diary of a separation
Joe's father, a worried - looking farmer with a accent, asked for Joe's hat. I It'sheepishly.
I sheepishly looked round for Ray and Fred, but they had very sensibly legged it.
Opening the book slowly to pages that barely have been creased, the student sheepishly begins the Invention.
Next to her was a little old guy looking rather sheepish and awkward, wearing a stripy jacket and a corduroy cap, with lots of badges on both.
The company execs sheepishly suggest the concept didn't translate well to products.
Asked to rubbish this scurrilous piece of scuttlebutt BT has sheepishly acknowledged that it is true.
He looked rather sheepish and diffident, hands in pockets and a nervous grin on his face.
Andruw Jones looked sheepish Sunday morning attempting to explain his bobble of a fly ball in Saturday's Game 4, which he turned into an acrobatic catch with some quick reflexes.
She derided him for his sheepishness, for his lack of initiative, for his cowering before a silly machine.
They wear beanies with propellers on top and get a round of applause when they sheepishly stand up to be identified. In the Plex
Bobby looked at her with a sheepish grin.
I looked down sheepishly at my hands that were folded neatly in my lap, not wanting to meet his gaze.
Sots vieux, nouveaux, et sots de tous ages, _ "thus he scornfully declaimed," and as yokefellow with Dan Merlin in his thorn-bush, and with wise Salomon when he capered upon the high places of Chemosh, and with Duke Ares sheepishly agrin within the net of Chivalry
When I confront him with his omissions and lies he just looks sheepish.
Followed by the sheepish admission of truth. this heralds a period of deeper intimacy.
He looked sheepishly into the lantern, his head slightly bowed.
Old Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front - folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waist-coats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails. Silas Marner (1885)
Ironic, too, that he's diffident to the point of sheepishness, even in front of the most adoring audience.
He looked rather sheepish and diffident, hands in pockets and a nervous grin on his face.
“Thank you,” he calls sheepishly, locking the car and pocketing the keys; not surprisingly, the only response is a burst of disembodied laughter. THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ
(Well, that's quite the euphemism, as well: an Italian newspaper mocked us all when, on Thanksgiving eve, that whole affair was postponed by Supervisor Leahy, and two other sheepish accomplices ~ their expressions imprinted on my long-term synapses for ever and anon. as well as sickening our holidays 'digestive cycles well through the next day and all left-overs, to boot ~~ with their headline, translated from the original Italian, "The Turkey Won"). Any true review of "Recount" at HBO must be subtitled "Look Back in Anger"
I then spent ten minutes changing the tube in my front tyre and looking faintly sheepish.
I don't hate Fred. and those who say they do .. in truth dont mean what they say. we are all different with different tates and likes and thts fine … but to judge someone based on "the masses opinoin" is sheepish. Worth Watching - May 29: Fred Durst's The Longshots Trailer « FirstShowing.net
Yasushi Takashita smiled sheepishly when his slender girlfriend Rika, clinging to the train stanchion next to him, suggested he use the Internet to search for some college-related information he needs. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Japanese Youth: Phone Wizards, PC Illiterates?
‘I think this is a bit beyond my ken,’ Updike says generously, before sheepishly moving on.
NEW JERSEY: Can the sheepish Vince Carter possibly become the leader the Nets so desperately need?
There is something apologetic and sheepish about Boris even at the best of times.
Each report that the cost of construction was set to rise has been denied, only for officials to later sheepishly admit that the building was indeed running over budget and beyond the notional deadline for completion.
She looked at her mother sheepishly, while her mother was looking at her very sternly.
They laughed and hurried sheepishly downstairs, leaving the key on the reception desk in the hotel lobby.
The congregation, taken aback a bit by the hectoring from the pulpit, retorted sheepishly, "We do."
Hassane and most of the competitors sheepishly made their way over to El Hadji's open-air mosque to perform their ablutions and prayers.
I have waited a few days to see if my mind too, like so many other things, would change, resulting in a blooper where I'd say ‘Oops I am back’ and get back to it with a sheepish grin on my face.
While the actor is confident and cocky, he also has a kind of sheepishness that stops him being just another action star.
As a gratifyingly sheepish look passed over my hairdresser's face, I basked in my brief moment of triumph.
We're sheepish about it because we're too dumb to know how to fight back against the microscopic murderers.
The offending male was rather sheepish when I glared at him through my cat-mask and asked him what exactly he thought he was doing.
I scrambled sheepishly off the sofa and ran to unbolt the front door. MY BABYSITTER HAS FANGS
First went Anoushka, who had barely unpacked her bags before she was taking baths in front of a still sheepish Cameron and signalling her readiness for wild, wanton sex.

How To Use Sheepish In A Sentence

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