Example sentences for: wily

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

  • Of the despised and wily but accommodating Greek, Juvenal says In caelum iusseris, ibit: “Tell him to go to the sky, and he will be off.”

  • The WP calls him a "wily Arkansas banking rogue."

  • The wily Cuban dictator will either sabotage the plan or turn it to his own uses.

  • My travels in Asia demonstrate a much more sensible approach by the wily natives, and in India, China, and Japan most of my contacts have, without invitation, settled for the easy to deal with Mister John.

  • The line itself is spoken by the wily Ulysses attempting to persuade Achilles to return to battle.


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