Sentence examples for wily to from inspiring English sources

Many experts have suggested that terrorists are too wily to be trapped through such surveillance.

He is technically extremely competent and actually in command, but far too wily to let me know that.

It seems inconceivable that he did not, but the Old Fox, another of his nicknames, would have been far too wily to have left the least incriminating scent.

Everywhere we look there are perfect little coves and clear deep blue water speckled with schools of fish that are far too wily to be caught.

Unlike many other Clark family members, he knew Huguette, who died in 2011 at 104, well enough to receive occasional phone calls from her, though she was too wily to give him her number.

Not that Lucchino, the Red Sox' president and chief executive, was prepared to proclaim it — he's far too wily to make that mistake — but the Matsuzaka signing might have signaled the end of the Empire's reign.

Even the fact that he was a little shorter than Leporello (rather than towering over him as Mr. Mattei did) gave a new twist to the character, forcing Giovanni to find wily ways to assert his will.

He brought malevolent echoes of Boris Godunov to his wily Basilio, to chilling effect.

That is what they called Sean Quinn -- canny conglomerateur to his friends, wily rogue to his enemies and, until recently, the richest man in Ireland.

I was never wily enough to escape being volunteered to act as Bageye's navigator.

Jurevicius is 6-5 and 230 pounds, but athletic enough to outjump defenders and wily enough to use his large frame over the middle in tight quarters.