Example sentences for: wiles

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

  • An ex-flame of Mrs. Cheveley, Goring can match her in Machiavellian wiles.

  • When Susan Faludi and Naomi Wolf, for instance, talk about the beauty industry, they sound like suspicious middle-class ladies eyeing a Chanel counter at Saks--they'll resist those foreign wiles!

  • Apparently, not even the sure-fire plot machinations of Lillian Hellman and beguiling wiles of actress Stockard Channing can rescue this Lincoln Center production from its pretensions.

  • (Why do editors fall for the wiles of the likes of Glass and Smith?

  • d) Is a capable adult, not--as her advocates claim--a naive child, defenseless against the president's wiles.


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