Cunning in a sentence

We found 37 examples of how to use cunning in an English sentence.

Sentences with cunning

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#	Sentence
1.	The potter's lost his cunning.
2.	The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.
3.	It is said that the fox is more cunning than any other animal.
4.	He makes believe that he is a practical statesman, but in really he is a cunning politician.
5.	That's just how cunning North Korea (and China) is.
6.	"The Parisian police," he said, "are exceedingly able in their way. They are persevering, ingenious, cunning, and thoroughly versed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to demand."
7.	Those cunning bastards!
8.	He's cunning and manipulative.
9.	Therefore, putting on one side imaginary things concerning a prince, and discussing those which are real, I say that all men when they are spoken of, and chiefly princes for being more highly placed, are remarkable for some of those qualities which bring them either blame or praise; and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel, one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate and cowardly, another bold and brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like.
10.	She's a cunning linguist.
11.	She is very cunning.
12.	She's very cunning.
13.	People say that the fox is more cunning than other animals.
14.	I see Tom as cunning rather than clever.
15.	If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not, if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.
16.	Weasels have a reputation for being elusive and cunning.
17.	That man is one cunning devil!
18.	Tom is very cunning.
19.	Tom is cunning and calculating.
20.	Layla was playing a very cunning game.
21.	Layla wasn't just cunning. She was also violent.
22.	Sami devised a cunning plan to cover his tracks.
23.	Cunning ignores violence.
24.	All knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom.
25.	Did you think you could match cunning with me—you with your walnut of a brain?

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