Sly Sentence Examples

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  • Cynthia asked with a sly smile.

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  • His eyes too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the next glanced round in alarm.

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  • He developed four well-defined characters in the process - a country farmer, Ezekiel Biglow, and his son Hosea; the Rev. Homer Wilbur, a shrewd old-fashioned country minister; and Birdofredum Sawin, a Northern renegade who enters the army, together with one or two subordinate characters; and his stinging satire and sly humour are so set forth in the vernacular of New England as to give at once a historic dignity to this form of speech.

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  • Ivanushka, sipping out of her saucer, looked with sly womanish eyes from under her brows at the young men.

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  • A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on the sly what was left in the glasses.

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  • He could hear that Lavrushka--that sly, bold orderly of Denisov's--was talking, as well as the quartermaster.

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  • As usual, in their spare time, they lit bonfires, steamed themselves before them naked; smoked, picked out and baked sprouting rotten potatoes, told and listened to stories of Potemkin's and Suvorov's campaigns, or to legends of Alesha the Sly, or the priest's laborer Mikolka.

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  • As, in Fenelon's own opinion, the great merit of Homer was his "amiable simplicity," so the great merit of Telemaque is the art that gives to each adventure its hidden moral, to each scene some sly reflection on Versailles.

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  • Could Nota and his affiliated crime family be that sly?

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  • So you travel the world in Sly 3 trying to recruit your new team.

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  • If you've played Sly 2, then you know that the levels are intertwined is such a way that each objective contributes to the main goal of the level.

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  • While on the Amnesty show, did I detect some sly digs at Noel Fielding from Boothby Graffoe and Ross Noble?

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  • But sly winks are all they are- they never overwhelm the film and are never played with anything other than a straight face.

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  • It even pays a sly nod to Sheffeild with the growling electro throb which flows above the outro.

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  • Next, the pedals take full charge, with sly glances in the direction of Bach.

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  • A sly message is hereby conveyed, suggesting that rule-breaking can be advantageous to some.

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  • The cast are all first-rate, with special praise due Harry Dickman's sly Shakespeare.

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  • Here are no reproaches, no base and sly insinuations, none of those invidious reflections with which controversies are usually managed.

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  • Watch our for Pixie, rather sly ninja invisible stylee.

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  • Silly Kids Games has some very sly Who references.

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  • She is also sly and sneaky with a knack for slipping in and out of places unnoticed.

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  • He was making a big thing about being friendly to all of us children in too sly and overt a fashion.

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  • Added pleasures are a biting wit, a sly subtlety and a merciless eye for social satire.

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  • He " had woven," according to an often quoted phrase of Goethe, " a certain sly element of irony into his method;.

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  • First, the shyster lawyer, without principle or mercy, then his brutal clerks, sly and grafting.

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  • It was a lot of fun, says Phillips, a sly grin creeping onto his face.

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  • She caught his eye, giving him a sly smile.

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  • Deliver Us From Evil is a good read, clever, brutal, with sly touches of dark humor.

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  • Laughter in a relationship is often companionable, not all hard physical comedy and sly innuendo.

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  • Her mug shot, in which she appeared to be posing for a photo shoot, featured a demure head tilt and sly smile.

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  • If your dog is one of those who wiggles and whines with anxiety when the camera is pointing right at him, why not consider snapping some shots on the sly while he's occupied doing something else?

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  • With that story set up, we learn that the grand thieves the Coopers (Sly's family) had a vault where all their treasures were hidden.

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  • Sly wants his family treasure back and decides he must gather a team of experts to break through the fortress and access the vault.

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  • I loved the first Sly and Sly 2 and I like this one.

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  • Buy Sly 3 because it's just plain fun and you be engrossed by the dialogue and gameplay.

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  • If you just can't get enough of that smiling rabbit with a sly sense of humor, then Happy Bunny flip flops will be a welcome addition to your summertime footwear collection.

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  • Jason wanted to be a hero too and started working for Andy on the sly, all the while pursuing his idea of becoming a deputy.

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  • Among Rock Hall's treasures are Slash's hat, Sly Stone's beaded vest, and the suit Elton John wore when he was enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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  • Fun to Collect has a great shirt that reads, "You're a Sly One Mr. Grinch."

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  • Without coming out and asking your partner about their favorite type of lingerie, here's how you can do it on the sly.

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  • The highlight of the night for everyone, though, was the surprise appearance of Sly Stone, who has not performed in public since 1993.

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  • A tribute to Sly and The Family Stone had been planned for the evening, but the 61 year old, mohawked pioneer of psychedelic soul was not expected to be present.

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  • Though it's hard to conceive of a better contender to Gainsbourg's crown than the inimitable Jarvis Cocker, artists as diverse as Franz Ferdinand, Tricky, Michael Stipe, and Sly and Robbie give it a go on this album as well.

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  • He knew Fred would be waiting up for him, but decided to let the old man cool his heels, punishment enough for setting up the evening's activity on the sly.

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  • The questioner who sits so sly Shall never know how to reply.

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  • Sly Cooper has gone through two games already and is posed to impress you with a third game.

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  • But parts of the book are so artful and oblique as to seem almost sly.

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  • We have lots of fun and adventures even tho those naughty goblins, Sly and Gobbo, are always trying to cause trouble!

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  • Elizabeth Bennett is feisty, intelligent, sharp, even sly, mysterious, and a nineteenth century version of sarcastic.

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