Example sentences for: wily

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

  • Also, Chuck D seems to be the only Machiavelli scholar who has heard anything about that wily courtier dodging death.

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

  • After answering one of Bauer's attacks, Bush actually winked at the wily evangelical.

  • Saga , Boutros-Ghali asserts that the wily secretary of state sought to unseat him "with determination, letting pass no opportunity to demolish my authority and tarnish my image all the while showing a serene face, wearing a friendly smile and repeating expressions of friendships and admiration through the poutiest ruby lips I have ever beheld.

  • In The Bone Collector , the wily serial killer leaves clues for the brainy forensics expert, played by Denzel Washington--clues that amount to a forensics jigsaw puzzle.


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