Example sentences for: wily

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

  • But when a company spends two decades impressing everyone with its ruthless practicality and wily resilience, it can't easily brush off rumors of plots.

  • Ah, yes, those wily Asians.

  • Possibly, he's confusing him with that other wily courtier, Rasputin, the man behind the czarist throne, who was poisoned, drowned, etc., but managed to keep coming back.

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

  • Buchanan also resurrects 75-year-old claims that the wily schemes of Wall Street financiers and munitions-makers plunged America into World War I. (And as Kaufman notes in the Weekly Standard , recent scholarship suggests Kaiser Wilhelm was more of a continental menace than previously recognized and that the war wasn't necessarily the "mistake" common wisdom once held it to be.)


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