Example sentences for: crafty

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

  • Time describes Milosevic as "one of the great losers of history" but then wonders if he's crafty enough to outmaneuver NATO anyway.

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

  • 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.

  • The paper quoted a former head of the Russian communications ministry, Aleksander Ivanov, as blaming the scare on Western intelligence services whose "crafty plan" was to install new computers with spying facilities in Russian government institutions.

  • Like that country, Motril is known for its rum, although its residents are crafty enough to make just about enough for local consumption, and no more.


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