skittish

How To Use skittish In A Sentence

• Is that why she was so skittish and nervous around me?
• This is especially useful for skittish horses and pregnant mares.
• But most Democrats who are on the ballot in competitive races this year skittishly avoid such stark imagery.
• She is a skittish girl who doesn 't behave herself.
• To find answers, Hsieh and Lauder turned to the basilisk lizard, a skittish tree-dwelling species found in Central America.
• The share price is likely to remain skittish until the situation clarifies. Times, Sunday Times
• Even straight men, so often skittish and easily threatened, found his aw-shucks persona and mildly sarcastic, I'm-in-on-the-joke attitude congenial.
• The horses slithered down the shallow bank and onto the glassy surface at a rapid trot, but the black was mistrustful of the insecure footing and jibbed skittishly.
• Gillian Keith fizzed skittishly and effortlessly as Zerbinetta, an acidulous sop to Orla Boylan's munificent, creamy but variably toned Ariadne. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
• Most of the goats cooperate with the necessary inconvenience of hoof trimming but some are skittish, squirmy, or agitated. Farm Journal: Harvesting, Husbandry, and Hoof Trimming