Example sentences for: cunning

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

  • At worst, he was a cold and cunning strategist without a glimmer of moral doubt, a man as happy to humiliate his friends, even execute them, as he is to commit mass murder--all in the name of consolidating power.

  • By 1810, the Pawtucket, Rhode Island, enterprise begun with Slater’s cunning had spawned a vibrant cotton-spinning industry throughout New England.

  • I can't recall another actor who seems at once so earnest and so cunning, so ingenuous yet with something so clearly up his sleeve.

  • North East Margaree has a salmon museum devoted to the fish’s life cycle and the cunning tricks of poachers.

  • Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country’s century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent — and most treacherous.


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