Example sentences for: crafty

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

  • Strong reviews for this collection of stories set in Soviet Russia: These "crafty, nerve-rattling tales are among the most unusual and interesting now being written" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Characters range from a nuclear reactor employee who tries to steal and sell the plutonium of the title in order to support his family after he gets radiation poisoning, to a girl who is convinced there is a link between her onset of puberty and the death of Stalin.

  • Rothenberg devised a crafty mechanism to lower MLS's costs.

  • The brilliance of the conservative movement (take a bow, you crafty Kristols) lies principally in how it changed the language of American politics.

  • "An eventful game combined with a cavalcade of crafty commercials kept Super Bowl XXXI lively and entertaining yesterday," says the Washington Post's Tom Shales.

  • This feat was accomplished in much the same way that Slater brought cotton spinning to the United States, through the agency of a crafty Boston merchant, Francis Cabot Lowell.


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