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Example sentences for: leery

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A little bent out of shape & leery of the wayThe night was coming down so black along the streets
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.
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.
As to Paula, when I wrote the editorials at TNR , we were early supporters of her right to a say in court and leery of those who dismissed her veracity.
The trend is puzzling, the paper notes, in that the Asian economic crisis has already made foreign investors leery of investing in China.