Example sentences for: shrewdly

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

  • In retrospect, Clinton appears to have shrewdly pitted the Ickes group against Morris as an exercise in the management style FDR called "creative tension."

  • The actor is still sleek, but the touch of crepe paper around his face has eliminated the plastic, department-store-mannequin look that Remington Steele exploited so shrewdly.

  • 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."

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


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