How to Use guile in a Sentence

guile

noun

• 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
• 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
• But Mourinho has been the center of attention since taking over Spurs for lack of guile, as well.
  — Frank Dell’apa, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• And then Salah danced past Sergio Ramos, a player whose grace and guile encapsulate his team.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 May 2018

Last Updated: 26 Apr 2024