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.

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

  • And celebrity sponsorship is a behavioral modification technique rivaling Santa Claus: Kids shape up quick if you can con them into thinking that Michael Jordan or Sly Stallone might show up at any minute.

  • Benny Hill, whose shows have often been seen (too often, some might be inclined to say) in the U.S., rarely resorts to rude language, focusing rather on what is viewed as a revival of old burlesque routines in which there is much rolling of the eyes, winking, and the sly aside to the audience, all of which add up to the rudeness being in the mind of the beholder.

  • Rather like the more recent scungy which, after years of use in Scots and Irish for a sly or vicious person, a sponger, suddenly found itself in vogue as a word connoting the general sordidness of modern youth.


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