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Example sentences for: canny

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

De Gaulle, with his canny sense of history, took an important step toward rebuilding national self-confidence by insisting that French armed forces fight side by side with the Americans and British for the liberation of the country, but, above all, that the French army be the first to enter Paris itself.
Beatty's flirtation with the presidential campaign may be a canny political tactic.
And anyway, these millennial demons are a particularly clumsy lot, far less canny and elegant than, say, Rosemary's Baby 's John Cassavetes, whose earthly weapon of choice was spiked chocolate mousse.
At FIT there is a 1986 hooded and trained evening dress by Azzedine Alaia, made of slinky green acetate knit that molds the body better than a glove, with similarly canny curved seaming.
I agree with the reader whose Oct. 1 letter to the editor, "Trapped in Monicagate," suggested that people who say "enough with Monica already" but then read Flytrap coverage may be canny rather than hypocritical.