Example sentences for: sly

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

  • And maybe nose plugs for good measure, because those waves are sly.

  • Each of the previous Batman films had a sly, spry villainous turn, with Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, and Jim Carrey dancing through their roles.

  • It's also given me the sly sense that I know why other people are acting their way.

  • According to Professor Spevack, the word hint has no connotation of invitation or covert suggestion: it simply means cue or suggestion; but should not be construed in the modern sense of innuendo, or sly, or teasing, which it came to mean by the end of the 18th century.

  • You're the sly one, telling me I should like Clinton for "bashing the poor" as if welfare reform was anything of the kind.


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