Example sentences for: sly

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

  • "The sweet, sly, man-pleasing sister of all of us who don't know whether to hit or hug, who gives herself in a heartbeat to the wrong men for all the right reasons," Burchill wrote.

  • 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.

  • Hollywood historians will recall when CAA's ace agent Ron Meyer locked in Sylvester Stallone's price at $20 million per by cutting a three-picture deal for Sly at Universal.

  • Park, accused of committing four counts of fraud, is said to have advised followers to buy certain stocks, which he then sold on the sly as their orders lifted the stocks' prices.

  • Perhaps they didn't, because they had in mind the conclusion of Aesop's famous fable--the one about the mice who decided to protect themselves from their "sly and treacherous" enemy, the cat, by tying a bell around its neck.


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