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Example sentences for: cunning
How can you use “cunning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
he pops out from some cunning hiding place and gobbles them down.
More to the point, Mamet can have himself a whale of a time directing a series of civilized confrontations that escalate in importance--from the young man who asks Winslow senior for his daughter's hand in marriage (and the precise amount of her dowry) to a cunning barrister, Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), who uses every rhetorical trick he can think of to wear down a Parliament weary of a twopenny schoolboy scandal.
Climb like a cucumber, fall like an aubergine; Stretch your feet only as far as your blanket allows; No tree has reached the sky; The foot that is too swift must be cut off; He who eats the Sultan's raisins must give him dates, or, put another way, A man without cunning is like an empty matchbox.
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.
In all this talk about entries, it must be remembered that the (accepted) practice in counting dictionary entries in the U.S. (and becoming the standard in the U.K. as well) is to count not only headwords, or main entries, but inflected forms, variants, changes in part of speech, run-on words (like cunningly and cunningness under cunning ), and list words (like reaccuse and reacquire ), which need no definition.
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