Explore Skittish through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like flighty or spooky. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Skittish in a sentence
Skittish meaning
- Easily scared or startled; timid.
- Wanton; changeable; fickle.
- Difficult to manage; tricky.
Using Skittish
- The main meaning on this page is: Easily scared or startled; timid. | Wanton; changeable; fickle. | Difficult to manage; tricky.
- Useful related words include: flighty, spooky, nervous, excitable.
- In the example corpus, skittish often appears in combinations such as: more skittish, been skittish, skittish in.
Context around Skittish
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Skittish
- In this selection, "skittish" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, threaten, assuring, bit, advertisers, spineless and democrats stand out and add context to how "skittish" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bit skittish and air force skittish at the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "skittish" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with skittish
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Skittish is right; poor JJ. (5 words)
Travelers are skittish even if they aren't going bungee-jumping. (11 words)
For more skittish governors, it’s the end of the month. (11 words)
While the other kids have labeled her as a "freak," Vada's only friend is a skittish, shy boy, Thomas J. Sennett, who is allergic to literally everything but doesn't find anything wrong with Vada's personality and interests. (40 words)
But there has also been a slowing of local production in the wake of the Fan Bingbing scandal, which made companies skittish to spend as they work to align with audits and a crackdown on fraud. (36 words)
When you throw the lasso when you're galloping, you must land it perfectly on that piece of tree trunk with the cameras there, the sound guys, and all these people around the skittish horses. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Gyrfalcon: replacementcool: meh cheetahs don't attack people, they're more skittish than regular cats.
If a series even openly discussed abortion, it risked the ire of highly organized media watchdogs on the religious right who would lead boycotts and threaten skittish advertisers.
Markets have been skittish in recent sessions with Republicans and Democrats unable to find common ground as the deadline for a deal to raise the country's borrowing limit approaches.
Skittish is right; poor JJ.
As a triumphant Starmer embarked on his new job last Friday, many of the skittish, spineless Tories who lost their nerve in 2022 woke up without theirs.
Biden’s team is assuring skittish Democrats that if Trump heads the GOP ticket, voters will show up for the president to thwart an extremist takeover.
Perhaps it is simply because, as adults, we have all lived through and been affected on some level by recent disasters so we’re all a bit skittish.
Privately, folks like O’Malley Dillon worked around the clock to calm skittish donors and activists.
Profiting from highly specialized data is the basis of Cohere, another of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups that pitches specifically-made models to businesses that are skittish about AI veering out of their control.
The only Democrat victory was in the Senate race, in which too many voters were skittish about football legend Herschel Walker, who was Trump’s handpicked candidate.
Travelers are skittish even if they aren't going bungee-jumping.
When you throw the lasso when you're galloping, you must land it perfectly on that piece of tree trunk with the cameras there, the sound guys, and all these people around the skittish horses.
While the other kids have labeled her as a "freak," Vada's only friend is a skittish, shy boy, Thomas J. Sennett, who is allergic to literally everything but doesn't find anything wrong with Vada's personality and interests.
As for Andre… well, he spent most of the episode trying to recruit thirdies to his cause, though they were pretty skittish.
Charlotte Trapman-O'Brien of the Turtle Back Zoo said cheetahs are naturally skittish.
For more skittish governors, it’s the end of the month.
Iran’s anti-ship missiles and air defense systems have made the Navy and Air Force skittish at the prospect of sending their multi-billion dollar platforms into harm’s way.
Knowing he’d been skittish before, I was scared to spook Kale by bringing up future plans so soon.
Now Mama— I was a lot more skittish of Mama than I was of Papa.
But there has also been a slowing of local production in the wake of the Fan Bingbing scandal, which made companies skittish to spend as they work to align with audits and a crackdown on fraud.
Common combinations with skittish
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: