1. My horse is rather skittish, so I have to keep him away from traffic.

2. The declining dollar gave heart to skittish investors.

3. Some skittish Wall Street investors are staying away from the market.

4. Marilyn was a complete child, playful and skittish one moment, sulky and withdrawn the next.

5. She gets very skittish when her boy - friend is around.

6. Investors are skittish about the impact of an economic downturn.

7. My horse was skittish, I could not settle him.

8. Cranston's mount became skittish and even Philomel showed a lively interest in the group round the scaffold.

9. Julie Worden and Charlton Boyd meet in a skittish duet, marked by sudden departures, near misses and unexpected evasive leaps.

10. Institutional investors such as mutual funds are more skittish and can bail out after a few quarters of soft earnings.

11. I won't have my son associating with skittish girls.

12. They deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount.

13. Skittish Americans are not the only ones worried about Chinese exports.

14. Investors get skittish, worrying that the issues plaguing one big player will affect another.

15. With consumers so skittish(), service industries are not faring well either.

16. She is a skittish girl who doesn 't behave herself.

17. She is as skittish as a kitten playing with a piece of string.

18. Skittish investors are keen buyers of Germany government paper, too, driving bond yields down.

19. My fellow legislators were skittish about appearing in any way be soft on crime.

20. As it is, the thundering herd is likely to prove a skittish lot.

21. Any pack animals the adventurers have may get restless and skittish.

22. And if Apple falls apart, software developers could get even more skittish about sinking money into writing programs for Macs.

23. At work she was a supremely confident executive; with her first child she was a skittish novice.

24. During the long housing slump, several high-profile crime stories gave skittish buyers one more reason to avoid the Inner Mission.

25. At the heart of the problem is this: Bighorn sheep are skittish animals.

26. And it's left most of those willing to buy stocks as skittish as whitetail deer in hunting season: never able to relax and always ready to bolt for escape.

27. They feared its mystery benefactor - a private company - might get skittish.

28. It is sad that 20 - and 30 - some things , as reported in the media, are skittish about commitment.

29. This product's life cycle will only last as long as everybody's skittish about SARS.

30. The job of the Treasury Secretary is chiefly that of a horse whisperer, to tame skittish financial markets by talking sweetly, if sometimes obliquely, into their ears.

1. My horse is rather skittish, so I have to keep him away from traffic.

31. Skepticism about the Fed's willingness and ability to do all this makes Congress skittish.

32. Skittish investors are keen buyers of Germany's government paper, too, driving bond yields down.