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Sentence Examples Sheep templates were snatched up and youngsters have been far from sheepish in letting their imaginations run riot. I then spent ten minutes changing the tube in my front tyre and looking faintly sheepish. 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. Wallace often looks sheepish when admitting that his family has paid the price of his political success. 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. I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer. I looked over at his mother to see a sheepish, almost embarrassed look on her face. Who can quarrel with a performance so vibrant with venal roguery and sheepish love? Is it possible to stay mad at a distant dad when he's also a sheepish, attractively rumpled amnesiac? When I spoke to her about it, she looked sheepish and hurriedly covered it up, and refuses to discuss it. The equally sheepish assistant fiddled with the mouse and looked blankly at the screen. As a gratifyingly sheepish look passed over my hairdresser's face, I basked in my brief moment of triumph. I mutter a sheepish apology and get to my feet, smoothing my shirt and trying to flatten my hair. There is something apologetic and sheepish about Boris even at the best of times. Her name was Rebecca and she spent Friday looking rather sheepish and apologetic! How can voters respond when their sheepish representatives can't even debate the matter in parliament? In the intermission of the premiere, the guests looked distinctly sheepish. A sheepish flush tinged my cheeks and Diego mumbled something in rapid Spanish about the sister he never had. She ran ahead, anxious for the secret to be unveiled, while Jude walked behind with a sheepish grin. Some sheepish hands are raised and the rest are banished from his presence. Show More Sentences But their damage is what we notice and what he shews us, the seduction and bribery of fervent desire meshed with sheepish sorrow. Gabrielle finally cracked a small sheepish smile and slid down beside him gingerly. 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. Looking sheepish when he finally noticed me standing at the counter, he laughed an apology. He was smiling at me, looking uncharacteristically sheepish, and well, quite beautiful. We're sheepish about it because we're too dumb to know how to fight back against the microscopic murderers. But it was too late to deliver an apology and I understand a sheepish Paul has hardly been able to sleep since. The man's grin was sheepish and he rubbed his sore thigh that had painfully come into contact with the table's leg. He looked rather sheepish and diffident, hands in pockets and a nervous grin on his face. His reply was a sheepish admission that even in time of war, boys will be boys. 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. As I came through the door I was greeted by a sheepish looking hound. The sheepish façade, meanwhile, had been swallowed whole by the hangdog look. He's a celebrity you can fawn over without feeling sheepish about our fawning celebrity culture. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer. No head bobbing or hand-clapping or chin-shaking or sheepish grinning — he sat perfectly still, chin tight, in locked, unmovable rage. After a pregnant pause, sheepish handshakes and the occasional hug were traded, and the colonel beamed benevolently from the podium. Casey glanced at me now and shot me a lopsided, sheepish grin. He was sheepish because he was about to open a new theatre in the heart of the same city. My colleague from Timmins-James Bay and I feel a bit sheepish for not speaking out more loudly the day we learned about this atrocious system. Show More Sentences The anglophones realized that francophones were not sheep or sheepish and that they wanted their rights respected. Don't let Igor's sheepish looks fool you! Igor is a designer sheep with long legs and a not so athletic body. Janice and Bryan Lever are not sheepish about the success they have made of what was supposed to be a retirement project. We were begging her to open her eyes for the photo and she gave that little sheepish smile before consenting to our plea. Duncan saw Amanda and Gregor and hastily shut the door. When it re-opened, he had a sheet around his body and a sheepish look on his face. The sheepish priest is then collected by MONIQUE and RENE, a faithful couple of old farmers. The groom's father and the bridegroom look sheepish and shake their heads. That left the small but fervid legion of believers who had dropped everything feeling upset and sheepish. 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. The other kind of clueless father I encounter on a semi-regular basis is the sheepish variety. There are denials from phone makers and carriers, sheepish admissions from others. Her face was screwed up in a comical expression of extreme disgust that soon changed to a sheepish grin as she saw that the fruit's meat lay exposed just under the rind. 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. When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail. It is time to abandon our sheepish line and take tough action so that the people of Burma may have the chance to freely express their views and be represented by the leaders of their choosing. We're beaky or tigerish, doe-eyed, raven-haired, foxy, chicken-hearted, slow as a tortoise, meek as a dove, sheepish, dogged, old goats, goosey, sitting ducks or vultures. Examples from Classical Literature And who would have suspected so very fierce a wolf under so sheepish an outside? He swings me around facin' her, and I expect I must have acted some sheepish. Mike, feeling sheepish and knowing he was guilty, had accepted the tongue-lashing and tendered an apology. There was a laugh at this, and Mackay, the third baseman, looked a little sheepish. I ain't more 'n half a man when she's round, she makes me feel so sheepish. This sheepish innocuousness comes easily to the natively uninitiative, to those who are readily amenable to fear and prohibitions. The lout with the sheepish smirk, holding the ball, is myself as I was before the cares of the world soured me. As he was leaving, Redcar spoke to him in rather a sheepish way. Well, I felt sheepish enough to be took in so, but I wouldn't a been in that ringmaster's place, not for a thousand dollars. He handed the assortment to Miss Thomas with a sheepish grin. I wouldn't be used to such grand people as the patriarchs and prophets, and I would be sheepish and tongue-tied in their company, and mighty glad to get out of it. I wish I had been there to see how sheepish the Englishmen looked. Yet, for all his air of peacock-like conceit, his clothes sagged a little, and his face wore a sheepish air which might have passed for profundity. Well, I got my boots on, and we went down and slipped in and laid the paper of sugar on the berth, and sat down soft and sheepish and went to listening to Bud Dixon snore. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sheepish? Words that rhyme with sheepish What is the adverb for sheepish? What is the adjective for sheepish? What is the noun for sheepish? Translations for sheepish Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sheepherding sheepherder sheephead sheepfold sheepdogs sheep-dog sheepishly sheepishness sheeple sheeplike sheepman sheeps 8-letter Words Starting With s sh she shee sheep sheepi sheepis