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How to use cannily in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cannily? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The Scot looked cool and mature and fought cannily before dispatching his opponent with a thunderous hook to the body.
My suite has classic Lanna touches in its fabrics and art works, and a cannily rotating television console.
The actor, cannily aware of the trap set by this modern dress version, resists translating the mannerisms into those of just another gay quean.
This last point is crucial because Hare avoids the trap of agitprop by cannily subverting the play's anti-war bias.
Unlike so much sham now usurping our stages, Fortune's Fool is a genuine, professionally crafted, and cannily produced play.
He was litigious, speculated cannily on the property market, hoarded grain in times of shortage and may have practised usury.
In the debate, the cockney cannily picked Derek, the professional speechwriter, to be on his side.
Since then, royal aides have cannily worked to secure autonomy and arms-length financing from government.
Perhaps you like your Neil Patrick Harris belting in high heels on Broadway, or cannily emceeing an awards show?
He is, as usual, anticipating sunny skies while cannily keeping a weather eye for icebergs.
I had not been using the service cannily, to complete an exhaustive music collection – as Winter had, for instance.
Willimon cannily structures the episodes of House of Cards in a more naturalistic fashion than traditional television.
Like any traveling circus, she converts the sidewalk into a stage, cannily positioning herself for maximum visibility within a sea of pedestrians.
The challenge the firms face is to move beyond the initial disappointment cannily enough to turn the openings into successes. No one looks likely to win quickly.
As the poison of jealousy moves through his blood, Leontes's seething monologues are accompanied by eerie, high-pitched strains in Keith Clouston's score that cannily evoke the warped perspective of a discomposed mind.
Though these personal interludes are short and sweet, they're as cannily designed as one of those candidate hagiographies political conventions show.
Examples from Classical Literature
On one occasion only he cannily indemnified his narrative for this drawback.
The doctor was called, and cannily solved the problem with a buttered shoe-horn.
When desire of news assailed her, she could easily conceal her personal resentments, cannily sacrificing small issues to great.
McMurtrie had Scotch blood in his veins, and was cannily chary of offering unasked advice.
To one who knows that neighbourhood the picture is cannily vivid.
Ive forgotten most of it, Cletus said, cannily dodging the trap.
Sofia Coppola cannily captures the pratfalls of society's mindless infatuation with low-brow culture.
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