How to Use guile in a Sentence

guile

noun
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  • 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 the meantime, the Bruins will try to get by on guile and a ball of twine.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Sometimes, a bit more guile is needed to fix the issue.
    — SI.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • In it’s place is guile, guts, and a legendary resilience.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 11 June 2019
  • To stay at the top, Pruitt has relied on guile to pull off this magic act.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 29 Dec. 2017
  • But this team from the start was built on guile and basketball IQ.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The steel and strength to Irving's wiliness and guile came from James.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 8 June 2017
  • Haynes relied on rudimentary wrestling moves and lots of guile that first year.
    — David Hinojosa, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The Astros received a master class in deception and guile.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Those with vast wealth and unrepentant guile are simply better at gaming the rules.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • Or a starting pitcher working on a shutout, relying on guile and guts.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • The Yankees’ patience increased as the game went on, but so did Cole’s guile.
    — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Their duel of guile and cannon is a fascinating entry in the annals of warfare at sea.
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The voice—ringing, powerful, soulful—and the musical guile were there from the start.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2016
  • Sometimes more than guile and payoffs are used to secure a Palio victory.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Saturday seemed one of those days that disdains guile, cunning or disguise.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Any animal can learn to be cute, but learning to be helpful takes cunning, guile, savvy.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The text messages — shocking in their lack of guile — offer kids weed, and the quantities paralyze me.
    — Sarah Evans, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • But Jabeur met the moment with power and precision; with variety and guile.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Monohulls require guile and finding ways to steal an opponent's wind.
    — Luke O'Brien, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2013
  • No guile or pretense is needed when conversing with oneself.
    — Gaile Robinson, star-telegram, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Instead of using guile to reclaim their homes, some species are wising up to the idea of avoiding us altogether.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 9 July 2018
  • Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile.
    — Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920
  • 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

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