Sentence examples for wily for from inspiring English sources

The AIDS virus is frequently described as wily for its ability to mutate drug-resistant forms.

Scolari is wily, for sure, but this time around, the time and opportunities to experiment are short.

He was too wily for them and kept talking while Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the minister of defense, mobilized his supporters in the Central Committee and got them to the Kremlin on time.

Astra Giurgiu were too wily for them for the second successive year, becoming the first visiting side to win at the London Stadium, but the way West Ham squandered their slender advantage was largely down to their own making.

Then there were those that insisted that with Contador back after his drugs ban, and fuelled by his own sense of the injustice of it all, the two-time winner would be too wily for the relatively unraced Froome.

And so it is that I doubt he was really lost all those 40 years; he was, after all, too wise and wily for that.

Mr. Carey's "Wily Overture," for string quartet, piano and percussion, was a sly, antic curtain-raiser.

Born in Aiken, S.C., and reared in Harlem, Ms. Jones early on developed wily devices for a small voice.

Many were hearing the wily single for the first time, and soundstage speakers and censors almost always neuter televised music numbers.

Beyond Mr. Codey's business dealings, Republicans would have probed Mr. Codey's record in the state Legislature, where he has been a wily fixture for three decades.

Libby needs some of this savvy: smart but withdrawn, she becomes a keen observer of her father's wily talent for treading the surface of life without getting weighed down by emotional responsibilities.