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.

  • Declaim that line of transliterated Greek, and you can listen to Homer's cunning selection of words and genitive case capture the twanging release of Ulysses' silver bow.

  • All papers also note that Saddam Hussein has successfully weakened Clinton's international support; says the Los Angeles Times , "the wily dictator has lost none of his tactical cunning."

  • A piece calls Hillary Clinton's campaign kickoff "cunning" and "brilliantly staged."

  • Like the pioneers of the Old West, Pooh is endlessly greedy, and he is cunning in pursuit of that greed.


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