How To Use Sheepishly In A Sentence

  • The company execs sheepishly suggest the concept didn't translate well to products.
  • 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.
  •   “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
  • 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
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  • I scrambled sheepishly off the sofa and ran to unbolt the front door. MY BABYSITTER HAS FANGS
  • 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
  • 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
  • I sheepishly put it on in the corner, thinking of all the black dance clothes I had at home.
  • 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
  • Sheepishly, I picked myself up from the ground weakly, completely fulminating with rage at the laws of gravity.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sheepishly he handed her back the money
  • Asked to rubbish this scurrilous piece of scuttlebutt BT has sheepishly acknowledged that it is true.
  • They wear beanies with propellers on top and get a round of applause when they sheepishly stand up to be identified. In the Plex
  • 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
  • He looked sheepishly into the lantern, his head slightly bowed.
  • “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
  • 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.
  • 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 scrambled sheepishly off the sofa and ran to unbolt the front door. MY BABYSITTER HAS FANGS
  • Cafu has a hack at Cahill's ankles and trots sheepishly away as Culina lines up the free-kick.
  • 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
  • I sheepishly meet his eyes for a moment and then focus on the hemp string around his neck.
  • The auntie in front turned back and smiled at me while I smiled back sheepishly.
  • They turned their heads and smiled sheepishly at her.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • This New Year crept in sheepishly dragging behind it last year's pain. Happy? New Year
  • But I sometimes feel I'm doing something haram," she said sheepishly, using the Arabic word for banned. Barking Moonbat Early Warning System
  • She swallowed her mouthful of food and grinned sheepishly.
  • He straightened up sheepishly, while the instructor stopped the car with the brake.
  • 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.’
  • Feng Yun - thing heaved a deep sigh of relief and grinned sheepishly at his daughter.
  • 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
  • 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...
  • ‘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.
  • "Compared to what I do now," he said sheepishly, "those drawings were pretty primitive."
  • The guy with blonde streaks through black hair and wearing silver sunglasses grinned sheepishly, pushing his sunnies up onto his hair.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • They laughed and hurried sheepishly downstairs, leaving the key on the reception desk in the hotel lobby.
  • 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.
  • Chemosh, and with Duke Ares sheepishly agrin in the net of Mulciber. Chivalry
  • He straightened up sheepishly, while the instructor stopped the car with the brake.

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