How to Use sheepish in a Sentence

sheepish

adjective

• He felt a little sheepish.
• How does such a smart pooch feel about what the sheepish stork brought?
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• The broadcast later showed him back on the bench, with a sheepish look.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
• Park Hye-hi, the 10-year-old, wore pink glasses, white-and-pink Nikes and a sheepish smile.
  — Victoria Kim, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
• But for any men who are sheepish about seeking out a spa day, the Beer Spa takes the edge off.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2021
• Noomi Rapace had no time to be sheepish on the set of Lamb.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• The men in the row mill about now, striking sheepish smiles or mumbling quips.
  — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
• The next day, Katie felt a little sheepish about snapping at him.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• The sun seemed to slink in a low arc across the sky, as if somehow sheepish about showing up on such an odd day.
  — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2021
• Who knew a simple twist in dialect would leave Nagy a touch sheepish?
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2019
• This is the same list that some sheepish suburb shoppers go hunting for online in the dead of night.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2021
• Gardner said part of him was sheepish about telling his story.
  — Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
• Within seconds, a sheepish guy with the wide eyes of someone fresh out of college sat down across from me.
  — Nadia Bokody, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2018
• The path to the Hall can be arduous for some, and Kaat sounded almost sheepish about his place in a room reserved for the giants of the sport.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• The Duchess of Sussex, 41, spoke about feeling sheepish as a teen on the latest episode of Archetypes, which was released Tuesday.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2022
• Taking that to mean him, Styles made a sheepish face and pretended to dash off the stage, which was met with laughter and applause.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2022
• The stragglers climbed onto it, sharing a sheepish smile.
  — Hazlitt, 10 May 2023
• Twenty minutes later, the son, 34, shows up, sheepish and sleepy from a weekend nap.
  — Tom Chiarella and James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2018
• The next moment, forty different cousins-of-friends'-sisters are knocking on your door toting a six-pack and a sheepish smile.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 28 June 2018
• Those smiles, sheepish and secure, speak to the team’s continued adherence to the Warrior way, even in the face of defeat.
  — Sean Gregory/oakland, Time, 20 June 2019
• The hasty conclusion ends the film on a sheepish note, without having gotten away with much at all.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
• And Beard looked a tad sheepish when addressing it after No.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2018
• The stranger is a twentysomething Rite Aid cashier wearing a Santa Claus outfit and a sheepish half-smile.
  — Alex Pappademas, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2019
• Not only did the 10-day-old stand stoically for the duration of the visit, but Morant seemed to be quite sheepish around Ja Raffe.
  — Joseph Salvador, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2020
• Prins looked sheepish, even a bit embarrassed, alone in his darkened room.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
• But Inouye-Perez has a habit of turning players into catchers, the coach says with a sheepish grin.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
• With three little words and a sheepish raise of his eyebrows, the tension dissipates.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
• His sheepish Europhilia announces itself and then cracks a joke to lighten the mood.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2023
• The latter results in one of the film’s best scenes when Eileen lays down the law to her sheepish husband, which Masterson absolutely nails.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2023
• Wolff paints the post-Ailes, post-Dominion, and post-Tucker Fox as a rudderless behemoth, led by sheepish heirs who loathe the sordid business but are chained to the money pipeline by greed.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024