Example sentences for: slyly

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

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • When Williams addresses the child as his noble patron ("my Lord") and alludes to the old myth of the tortoise that supports the universe, he slyly introduces the underlying weight of civilization and history into the interchange between him and the child.

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

  • That kind of pawkiness is fitting in a dictionary edited and published in Edinburgh and which defines pawky as a Scots word meaning “drily or slyly humorous.”


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