用diffidently造句子，“diffidently”造句

Instead he just sat down quickly with an abrupt, half-defiant movement, lit his cigarette, and spoke to one of the men quickly and diffidently, saying.

"I once thought of calling myself Red-handed Jack," he said diffidently.

Victor Henry diffidently named three well-known rear admirals.

By the end of the summer, he said, almost diffidently, most of them would be either killed or captured.

"I don't suppose," Tootles said diffidently [bashfully or timidly], "that I could be father."

The country became a full NATO member in 1999 and diffidently joined the European Union in 2004.