How to Use cagey in a Sentence

cagey

adjective

• At first, Tosca proved an easy mark for this cagey Scarpia.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• Again, Shoaf is cagey about what’s real and what isn’t.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 12 Apr. 2018
• Crowe himself is cagey about his stock’s prospects, as most CEOs are.
  — Sean Donahue, WIRED, 3 July 1998
• The first leg ended 0-0 – a cagey affair in which neither side were able to get the breakthrough goal.
  — SI.com, 19 July 2017
• Kirke is wonderfully cast as the cagey center of the film.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2018
• Ray Davies remains cagey about the prospects of getting the band back together.
  — Geoff Edgers, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• So be cagey, go mano a mano, and do not use your turn signal, advised some readers.
  — Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 20 June 2017
• The last chance of the half fell to the Hammers, but Mark Noble's tame shot wasn't a problem for Butland, and the keeper made sure the cagey first-half ended at 0-0.
  — SI.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Jansen, who blew the save in Game 2, allowed a homer in Game 4 and lost Game 5, gave a similarly cagey response when asked about the ball.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• Plunkett threw two touchdown passes to fast, cagey Cliff Branch.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 30 Jan. 2018
• Shannon has always been cagey about how the fillets are prepared.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2020
• Alfa declined to grant an interview for this story and has been cagey about sales goals.
  — Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• The game got cagier from this point onward with previous few good chances for either side.
  — SI.com, 25 June 2019
• Coach Jason Garrett was cagey about how involved Elliott would be in the offense.
  — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
• The first half was a cagey affair as Torino frustrated their hosts throughout.
  — SI.com, 5 Nov. 2017
• The airline is being cagey about what time reservations will open on Thursday.
  — Dawn Gilbertson, azcentral, 31 May 2018
• Since Curry never even peeked at Livingston, the cagey vet is taken by surprise.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 1 June 2018
• So Qatar has pursued a cagey game, particularly in the past twenty years or so.
  — Robert Bateman, Esquire, 16 June 2017
• The Department of Justice has been cagey about how Winner was outed so promptly.
  — Michael Hiltzik, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
• The Petrel team has been a little cagey about Hornet's precise location, and for good reason.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2019
• After starting very cagey, this game was really starting to open up.
  — SI.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• In the United States, Toyota’s official response is a little more cagey.
  — Bengt Halvorson, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2017
• Even if coaches are often cagey about giving away anything.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 13 Dec. 2017
• Josh is cagey and elusive about his diagnosis and his prescriptions, which doesn’t leave Emily much to work with.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 12 Apr. 2018
• The past few weeks of quarterback drama were not a mind game on McElwain’s part to get under the skin of the notoriously cagey Harbaugh.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The opening exchanges were a little cagey, with plenty of fouls and little fluency from either side.
  — SI.com, 18 June 2018
• The first round of group games is cagey, cautious; everyone worries that this year’s competition will be the worst in history.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 June 2018
• Kylie’s commissioned two custom millennial-pink gowns from Versace: The first, a cagey-mermaid look that took 350 hours to make, causes Kylie to trip over the train.
  — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 28 Aug. 2017
• Apple is typically cagey about what features the next iPhone, due out later this year, might brandish.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2017
• Although cagey about the specifics of production, Reed concedes that the fruits are to be of appropriate firmness and boast a more subtle color than the usual deep red of American strawberries.
  — Fortune, 14 Jan. 2020

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