Sentence examples for a guile from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a guile" is not correct in standard English usage.
The word "guile" is an uncountable noun, so it should not be preceded by the article "a."
Example: "She used her guile to navigate the tricky situation."
Alternatives: "deceit" or "cunning".

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Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has gotten this far with a guile that allows him to say whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear.

In the years that followed, Checketts would blend a disarming personality with a guile and intelligence in ways that would make him one of America's consummate sports executives.

England were laboured while Suarez had a guile and menace that unnerved them.

Former Italy attacker Totti may be in the twilight of his marvellous career but he showed a guile and composure that often proved beyond City, who still seem to be searching for a self-belief in this competition that equates to the stature of the players in their squad.

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The bond gave the jihadis a tactical guile and the Ba'athists a military muscle that neither could have boasted without the other.

The wardrobe shift accompanies the slightest change in on-court style, and a fully enabled Ginobili incorporates a familiar guile in breathtaking ways.

In this slimmed-down version of baseball, teams will win more with a bit more guile, a throwback to the time when teams won with Marty Marion and Phil Rizzuto and Pee Wee Reese and Dave Concepcion, just to name a few other smart and reliable shortstops.

Neither his years — he is 89 — nor his political foes, nor sanctions imposed by his Western adversaries in London, Washington and elsewhere have been able to end the increasingly personalized and autocratic rule he has secured through a blend of guile, an iron fist and what his critics call a lust for power.

A review in Q magazine praised Lavigne for displaying "a musical guile way beyond her years".

And despite boasting the musical dexterity of Status Quo, it's a short, sharp shock that dispatches its venom with a tireless guile".

Such celebrity manoeuvring requires a rare guile and genius.

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