How to Use wary in a Sentence

wary

adjective

• The store owner kept a wary eye on him.
• Investors are increasingly wary about putting money into stocks.
• But Gen Z is the most wary of them all, the report finds.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• Some of Lesné’s colleagues in the field had been wary of his work for quite some time.
  — David Robert Grimes, The Atlantic, 29 July 2022
• The police officer was wary of the new group in charge.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
• The Blackhawks also have to be wary of the cap floor next season.
  — Scott Powers, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
• But some cyclists are wary about sharing the road with cars.
  — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Be wary of sodium Pay attention to the amount of salt in foods.
  — Andrea Kane, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
• That's why investors need to be wary of single-stock ETFs.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 26 July 2022
• With all the rapid advancements in AI in just the past year, some users are wary of its safety.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
• Signing Kim comes with a big risk, which is something the Tigers would need to be very wary of in this case.
  — Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
• Be wary of potential scams and look for the warning signs.
  — Ashley Donohoe, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2023
• But like Brannon, Dave was wary of a Sanders package deal.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2024
• And unlike the wary animals to the north, French’s koalas don’t seem to mind humans.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2024
• The judge was wary of the nature of Bayside’s subpoena.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2022
• But be wary of claims that those, or anything else, will be game changers.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
• Note that a little goes a long way, so finer hair types should be wary of overuse.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 22 July 2023
• That, too, has some observers wary of making any bets based on his tweets.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
• And life in the water transformed them into predators even large sharks had to be wary of.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• Still, the flurry of arrests has made many observers wary.
  — Anton L. Delgado, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
• The poundings have left residents wary of what lies ahead.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 30 May 2022
• Lewis is a romantic, greedy for love, but wary of it, too, because love is the first thing that life hurts.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• The guilds are wary of being pitted against each other.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• This isn’t the first time that bidders have been wary of an Alsdorf piece on the auction circuit.
  — Elyssa Cherney, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2023
• The clients, who had never lived in a house quite this big, were wary of losing a sense of coziness.
  — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 2 July 2024
• But wary investors will give them food for thought: is Nvidia the next Apple, or Radioshack?
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 29 Feb. 2024
• Plus, landlords were wary of renting to them now, with an eviction on their record.
  — Sofia Jeremias, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
• But Wen said Biden might be wary, given how things went before.
  — Chris Megerian, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
• Cuban compared people who are wary of adopting AI tools in the workplace to those who were once afraid to embrace PCs and mobile devices.
  — Tom Huddleston Jr.,megan Sauer, CNBC, 15 Mar. 2025
• Additionally, be wary of anyone asking you to send money, cryptocurrency, gift cards, or to invest.
  — Rachel Wells, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025