Example sentences for: slyly

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

  • His secret weapon was, perhaps, his playfulness, his sense of being slyly amused by a mad world and his own mad self.

  • 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.

  • Smith slyly echoes Scorsese's film when Rickman's Voice of God, attempting to convert the reluctant Bethany to his cause, explains that Jesus didn't take it any better when told of the painful destiny that awaited him: "I had to deliver the news to a scared child who only wanted to play with other children."

  • 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.”

  • A long time ago, when I was doing a satirical news show at a rock station in Los Angeles, they bought an analog tape machine with a rotating head, the premise being that it wouldn't change the pitch of records, but would slyly speed them up to make room for--more commercials.


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