Sentence examples for cunning from high-quality English sources.

• Even after a few beers, Luis is nimble and cunning.

• The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.

• In a Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, he is portrayed as a cunning, violent man.

• But Brexit demanded different qualities—the cunning of the fox and the occasional raw power of the lion.

• Netanyahu is inarguably cunning, yet he may have met his match.

• By force of charisma, intellect and political cunning, the lawyer-turned-guerrilla embodied the revolution.

• Novelists may score a lucky hit now and then and here and there, but history is much more cunning than we are.

• There’s also, currently, Richard Jones’s production of Janácek’s Cunning Little Vixen (with costumes by Anthony McDonald).

Use cunning in a sentence.

• This was the crux of the prosecutor’s problem: Albanese’s narrative required Nunez to be both fiendishly cunning and a complete klutz.

• For years, US officials considered killing a cunning adversary who ordered attacks on their forces and taunted them with social media barbs.

• Hackers are cunning, and China employs thousands of them to steal foreign secrets, as a report last month from Mandiant, a computer-security firm, made clear.

• While the exact function of such masking is not known, present-day instances suggest that hunters may wear animal costumes to magically take on the animal’s strength and cunning.

• He wanted humans to renounce all artificial “cunning contrivances” that facilitate their work but lead to “cunning hearts” and agitated souls in which the Dao will not dwell.

• Privacy-minded writers relied instead on cunning combinations of folds, tucks, slits and seals, a practice Jana Dambrogio at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has dubbed “letterlocking”.

• Terence O’Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foamy ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda.

• Hughes, (born August 17, 1930, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England—died October 28, 1998, London), English poet whose most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines.

cunning sentence examples

• After Elizabeth gets Charlotte sold off the plantation—the cunning mistress never loses her passion for Benjamin; in fact, she gives birth to his child—she goes to visit Benjamin in his cabin with David and her brother John (Hugh Sinclair), who is a preacher.

• Continuing that theme, Simpson's childhood friend, Mary Kirk, who married the royal consort's cuckolded second husband, Ernest Simpson, wrote in a diary of her erstwhile love rival: "I think of her as people think of Hitler, an evil force… full of animal cunning".

• The difference is that Mann was cunning and resentful, prepared to cause havoc in his desperation to escape, whereas Watney is cunning and resourceful—not a blamer, or a soul in meltdown, but a model of cockiness and grit as he sets about the business of survival.

• Acquaintances describe Kravetz as 'wicked,' treacherous and 'sociopathic' — 'cunning, devious' and 'controlling,' prone to emotional 'blackmail' and able to 'deceive' those around her for 'long' periods of 'time.' … highly aggressive and 'extremely manipulative' … bullying, violent, 'self-centered and conniving.'