Sentence examples for sly words from inspiring English sources
In the first half of the 20th century, black men, women, and children were lynched, thousands of them, for alleged rapes, murders, sly words or looks, whistling, their successes and achievements, and sometimes for no reason at all.
During a two-hour interview here, she talked about whether she missed Washington ("a little"); explained, in short phrases, her positions on firearms; and made a sly one-word joke ("wasteland") about one of her least favorite places.
Spelled out in diamonds were the words "SLY" (right hand) and "STONE" (left hand).
THE name of this seven-month-old Indian restaurant is a sly play on words, a six-letter tribute to its hometown.
It's too serious to be humor, and the word "sly" suggests deceit.
No, the joy was in reading and rereading Adams's prose: the sly delight in word- and plot-play, the perfect ear, the serendipity of onomatopoeia in the English language and the careful fusion of apparently randomly loopy scenarios with insight and a Point.
That was a sly way to word it, because he knew he planned to step down.
Putting a sly emphasis on certain words, she makes it more than an invitation to go on an early-morning nature walk and scent the "woodbine spices" and "the musk of the roses".
'When I came home at the airport, my mother looked at me and started crying.' In the words of Sly himself: 'You can't cry 'cause you'll look broke down/ But you're crying anyway 'cause you're all broke down......
A sly glance, an admiring word, their confidence in me to complete any mission.
He credited his opponents, with a sly dig: "A special word for them – they played very good.
