Example sentences for: steely

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

  • Yes (speaking of steely blonde women who make Faustian marital bargains in the name of love, or "love"), I look forward to discussing Hillary and her campaign against Rudy Giuliani (King Kong vs. Godzilla?) tomorrow.

  • Her Camille is like a steely, demented temperance activist who keeps charging into otherwise relaxed settings and throwing them into chaos.

  • 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.

  • 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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