Example sentences for: steely

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

  • Where are Steely Dan and Frank Zappa?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Dole, who at the rally had projected a steely excitement, the contained enthusiasm of a veteran politician in firm grip of his emotions but willing to share with his supporters what bits of them he must, sank back into himself, simmering in a glumness he wished he could contain but knew he could not.


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