Example sentences for: slyly

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

  • Comment : Admirable use of quiz form to slyly denigrate the military-industrial complex, although the fourth choice might have been "Bill Gates."

  • After I had circumlocuted a while to avoid offense to her, she and the customer agreed slyly they knew what word I meant.

  • Why would a lexicographer snatch up a unique, Dickensian creation, gag him and bind his real persona hand and foot, then slyly stand an impersonator in his place?

  • Sketches sets up processional rhythms and rich, slow-motion harmonies behind Davis, and then slyly extends trickles of harp or flute from the rest of the mass.

  • In each of these books--ingeniously structured around the cycle of the Hogwarts school year--Rowling manages to impart new information about the wizard world (and slyly fill you in in case you've missed the earlier installments, something that will become increasingly important as the series fills its projected seven volumes and sales figures mount into the trillions), to advance the long-term narrative conflict (about Harry's search for his origins, and his Manichean struggle with Voldemort, a wizard who's gone over to the Dark Side), and to create and resolve enough satisfying short- and middle-term conundrums to make the volume stand alone.


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