How to Use guile in a Sentence
guile
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In the meantime, the Bruins will try to get by on guile and a ball of twine.
— Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2021 -
His soft flop shot on the sixth hole Thursday was a study in guts and guile.
— Al Saracevic, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2018 -
That, Richardson, 30, said is where guile has to carry the day.
— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2024 -
In it’s place is guile, guts, and a legendary resilience.
— Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 11 June 2019 -
The steel and strength to Irving's wiliness and guile came from James.
— Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 8 June 2017 -
But this team from the start was built on guile and basketball IQ.
— Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Dec. 2021 -
To stay at the top, Pruitt has relied on guile to pull off this magic act.
— Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 29 Dec. 2017 -
Sometimes, a bit more guile is needed to fix the issue.
— SI.com, 5 Sep. 2019 -
The Yankees’ patience increased as the game went on, but so did Cole’s guile.
— Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2019 -
As Aeneas says, what a decade long siege could not achieve, Sinon achieved with his guile in a day.
— Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 June 2022 -
No training, no craft to speak of, no guile, just pure instinct.
— Terrence Rafferty, The Atlantic, 22 June 2015 -
Chance, guile, and missteps put the Democrats in this position.
— Matthew Continetti, National Review, 25 Sep. 2021 -
Iovine used his guile to convince TVT to sign the band's contract over to Interscope.
— Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 12 July 2017 -
Yet guile and timely baserunning eked out the win: With two outs and the score tied 2-2 in the fifth, Riggio dashed home from third on a wild pitch.
— Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021 -
As a wiry shooting guard who topped out at 6-foot-4, Sir’Jabari Rice often has to get by with guile and subterfuge.
— Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Jan. 2023 -
The voice—ringing, powerful, soulful—and the musical guile were there from the start.
— David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2016 -
Tampa is 5-2 and Brady is a huge reason for that mark — for his arm, for his leadership, for his guile.
— Barry Wilner, Star Tribune, 26 Oct. 2020 -
The Celtics were down two starters and a key reserve and still found enough guile to pull away from the Pistons on Saturday in Detroit.
— Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022 -
That, plus tons of experience and veteran guile, should be enough to get him to the weekend and give him a chance.
— Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2020 -
What Manafort could not gain him by guile, Putin—in a move described by Trump as genius-- determined to seize by force.
— Stephen Humphreys, al, 2 July 2023 -
Haynes relied on rudimentary wrestling moves and lots of guile that first year.
— David Hinojosa, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021 -
Away from the camera, the man affectionately known as Grapes has softer edges and a prankster’s guile.
— Curtis Rush, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2017 -
So much that belonged to the Abdalahs had through the years been tickled over with a catfishing guile to the munshi’s portion.
— Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021 -
Mats Hummels, Germany Don’t let that big, strong physique fool you, Hummels has plenty of style and guile to go with his strength.
— Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 16 May 2018 -
Despite Greinke’s guile and long track record in the regular season, the Tampa Bay Rays battered him for six runs in the first round of the playoffs.
— James Wagner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2019 -
The Astros received a master class in deception and guile.
— David Waldstein, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017 -
With the guile and shiftiness of Messi, who roams freely around the field, that opening can come at any moment — and through any defender.
— James Wagner, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022 -
Home runs have become a problem for Melville, a pitcher who relies on pitch command and guile.
— Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2019 -
The text messages — shocking in their lack of guile — offer kids weed, and the quantities paralyze me.
— Sarah Evans, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020 -
Pick: The Wildcats and Broncos are similar teams, defined by their defensive guile.
— J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
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