Example sentences for: shrewdly

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

  • Critics also declare 1997--dominated by the Spice Girls--as the "year of the woman" in rock: "Never in pop history have female singers been quite so aggressively, shrewdly marketed on the basis of gender alone" (Karen Schoemer, Newsweek ).

  • Everybody loves Dick , "a gaily funny, shrewdly inventive satire" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ) of the Watergate scandal told from the point of view of two teen-age girls.

  • A cynic might suggest that by heretofore honoring the 78-year-old Salinger's privacy, Joyce has shrewdly protected her investment.

  • The idea was also to do with taxes what House Republicans had shrewdly done with welfare reform in 1996, holding the president's feet to the fire by sending him a politically popular stand-alone bill.

  • The conventional wisdom, distilled last week by the Los Angeles Times , is that Saddam is shrewdly provoking the allies and that they're taking the bait, engaging in a "war of attrition" that will "keep world attention focused" on Iraq and leave the United States "looking like a bully."


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