How to Use canny in a Sentence

canny

adjective

• Godzilla from May 21 to March 31 turned out to be a canny one.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• The brothers jumped on it, and their timing looks canny.
  — Kaya Laterman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The dream of Unicorn perfection was put on hold while these dudes brought the big man back in canny ways.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2023
• In terms of how the series is structured, Ryan has made some canny choices.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
• Later, those canny entrepreneurs, Pizarro and Cortés, used the model with success in the New World.
  — WSJ, 30 July 2021
• The soundtrack dropped a month before the film, an odd way to orchestrate a release, but a canny move in this case.
  — Travis Atria, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2022
• The owner has a passion for boats and was canny about the potential in small spaces.
  — Jo Rodgers, ELLE Decor, 19 Oct. 2022
• In any case, being draped in custom Ralph Lauren is a canny move for Creed, and the actor that portrays him.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2023
• Great because: Break-your-nose outsider metal, with a canny vocal mix of growl and croon.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 4 July 2022
• This enjoyably canny thriller is kind of Freeway meets Shadow of a Doubt.
  — Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 23 June 2021
• How to be canny, like the workers of the past, and how to be conservationists, like commoners.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• But Tiafoe responded with some canny serving, and Alcaraz just missed two forehands wide that evened the match.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
• In a canny performance, Morman also made sure Hoke was all too human, not a saint.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• That’s a canny move to build cred, but not one that aims for chart dominance; a No. 8 debut makes all the sense in the world for an experimental LP like this.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 9 May 2023
• Can it be used to canny effect in U.S. foreign policy by the commander in chief?
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• Suing people who were struggling even before the pandemic may turn out to be a canny move.
  — Justin Scheck, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
• Reid was a tough, canny career politician who was unable to galvanize a crowd.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• This may add little to our cultural heritage but quite a bit to the bottom lines of these companies’ cannier users.
  — Rob Reid, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2023
• His canny placement of the camera for long shots and use of chiaroscuro lighting in close-ups make just about every scene, all of them filmed in widescreen, a cinematic study.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• For this level of care to embed itself in our idea of the director, though, is something else — a feat of canny marketing, for one thing.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2022
• Her success comes down to her canny mix of razor-sharp tailoring and of-the-moment sensual edge.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2021
• From the first gold rush onwards, canny operators have recognized that the safest way to make your fortune is to sell picks and shovels.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• The canny Carnes brothers used her as an exotic object.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• As Monica, Feldstein proves herself to be a canny bit of casting.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 31 Aug. 2021
• Styles cements himself as a canny songwriter as well as a mischievous charmer.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
• This was his first fashion partnership, which is a canny signing indeed by Boss.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2021
• My heart is filled with phrases that dazed in their day, words in canny order, solving clouds and mazes of blundering expression.
  — Rex Wilder, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
• The director — or whichever canny member of his team is behind the account — doesn’t use the platform as a viewing diary though.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• My favorite is about the two best friends who started the La Mancha development company, one of the biggest and canniest of the mini-mall builders.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• Robot makers of any era would have loved to plug a canny, practical brain into robot bodies.
  — David Berreby, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024