Sentence examples for is being sly from inspiring English sources

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Bono is being sly, playing with that religious imagery that's always in U2's music.

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You may think you're being sly, but all it does is make us sigh.

You think you're being sly, but your tendency to wait outside the boy's bathroom is anything but sneaky.

Taj and Stephen can barely resist laughing in his face, since he thinks he's being so sly as he falls into their Cunning Trap.

Even when Sly is being the real Sly, Mr. Dreyfuss casually shifts tones of voice: sometimes sounding like Walter Brennan, sometimes like, well, Richard Dreyfuss.

What it is, is a sly observation of moments we have all experienced: the embarrassing date who insists on making out on the dance floor, or the rude friend who texts during an important dinner.

Thinking she was being really sly, she fine-tuned her resume and sent it to the person mentioned in the article.

The following year, I got it, and could see that mime – despised, naff mime – was being given a sly, sexy and interactive makeover for a whole new audience.

Americans were shocked at the way money was being passed around for sly promotional services.

When I asked him about that during a recent conversation, he said, "When I said that I don't feel a responsibility, I was being a little bit sly and provocative on purpose".

Who amongst us didn't feel their heart sink as they heard Sly Stallone was being signed up for a remake of Get Carter, or Renee Zellwegger was top choice as impish Beatrix Potter, or Nicole Kidman was to play an abused cleaning lady in The Human Stain (not to mention Anthony Hopkins as a - spoiler alert - secretly-black professor …).

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