Example sentences for: steely

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

  • This hiss, the noise level in her voice, like Glenn Gould's humming as he played the piano or the squeaking of Andrés Segovia's fingers on the strings of his guitar, makes her unusual today, when most singers are trained in the discipline of steely perfection and when our ears have become accustomed to the sharp-edged sounds of a compact disc, surrounded by undiluted digital silence.

  • The cover profile admires Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's steely determination to make peace.

  • 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.

  • 99), was a decent steely Sauvignon Blanc that stood up to the trip nicely.


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