Example sentences for: leery

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

  • The mere fact of its commanding position in the microprocessor market--a position it initially achieved by technological superiority--has made computer makers leery of doing business with its competitors, lest Intel fail to give them access to new, more powerful chips in the future.

  • 6 Green Acres --A taciturn banker (Henry Fonda) forces his beautiful but leery young wife (Marilyn Monroe) to live a simple life on a farm.

  • A little bent out of shape & leery of the wayThe night was coming down so black along the streets

  • An article says that Northern Ireland's Protestants are leery of the peace accord, because its amnesty provision will free many jailed Irish Republican Army bombers and assassins.

  • The trend is puzzling, the paper notes, in that the Asian economic crisis has already made foreign investors leery of investing in China.


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