Example sentences for: sly

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

  • Aki Kaurismaki hates Hollywood and directs sly, funny films.

  • An article claims that sly telecom firms have figured out how to collude in U.S. spectrum auctions.

  • After Sly became a superstar, he seized creative control of his films and moved the camera way up close, so that his heavy-lidded nobility and his musculature loomed large.

  • The speaker's wording was sly as ever--what isn't a "potential" abuse?

  • In the '70s, blues rock (a modern white version of the blues) transformed itself into heavy metal , typified by Led Zeppelin . Singer/songwriters like James Taylor recorded easy-listening confessionals, and country-rockers like the Eagles institutionalized The Byrds' country experiments (and adumbrated the slick contemporary country sound of Nashville stars like Garth Brooks ). Funk ( James Brown , Sly and the Family Stone, Funkedelic) made soul wilder and looser, and disco combined the celebration of Eros and dancing with beats derived from funk, Latin music, and German experimentalists like Kraftwerk.


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