Example sentences for: cannily

How can you use “cannily” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The electrodes were cannily placed, the jolts administered at regular intervals.

  • The Brahmins cannily countered this threat by absorbing the new ideas into their teachings.

  • To avoid charges of being anti-public-education, Bush cannily referred to the vouchers as "opportunity scholarships."

  • Now, the aging Pinochet cannily emphasizes his work with the economy and his statesmanship.

  • She quite cannily sets Harry's adventures in an England whose culture and geography are entirely literary.


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