Example sentences for: steely

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

  • The Post notes that when asked if he might consider resigning, his response--the voters want him to do his job--was less "steely" than the "Churchillian 'never'" he responded with last February.

  • Nothing that is valued by less steely businessmen--loyalty to workers, responsibility to the community, relationships with suppliers, generosity in corporate philanthropy--matters to Dunlap.

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  • In The Kennedy Obsession , Hellmann conducts a close reading of young Jack's personal library: the adventures of Ivanhoe and The Young Melbourne ; the steely, masculine prose of Ernest Hemingway.

  • So at first glance, when you consider how steely Conley had to be to rise in the field, the event that provoked her to leave sounds pretty innocuous: A colleague named Gerry Silverberg got promoted to be head of the program.


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