How to Use crafty in a Sentence

crafty

adjective

• One gets crafty after a while and learns how to save oneself.
  — Julie Miller, HWD, 8 Dec. 2017
• Happ is crafty around the basket with his balletic footwork, pump fakes and shots from odd angles.
  — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2017
• There's a lot to unpack with these releases, too: Swift is a crafty wordsmith.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2017
• Such fake apps are designed by crafty developers to trick inattentive users.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• Herro is a crafty dependable scorer who loves to run in transition and create in the half-court set.
  — Gary Bedore, kansascity, 27 Oct. 2017
• Where Cobb is crafty, Diarra is the more physical presence.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• The crafty Houston lefthander whiffed him his first time up by slipping a cutter past his hands after throwing five straight fastballs.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• And will continue to have them until offensive line gets tougher and the receivers get craftier and the next quarterback gets a chance to plant some roots.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2017
• Beckworth, who's clearly crafty, says she's learned to tackle increasingly difficult projects over time.
  — Mary Colurso, AL.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• Three of them — Malenkov, Beria and Khrushchev — were as crafty, as skilled, as tough as any figures to be found in Russia.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 10 Oct. 2017
• While the internet is pretty amused by Cardi’s crafty idea, using an iron to straighten the hair is actually nothing new.
  — Kelsi Zimmerman, Allure, 2 Nov. 2017
• But weirdly, Alex and his parents were the start of it: three people who didn't necessarily have any kind of superpowers, but were crafty.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
• Owner John Frechette has assembled the perfect collection of hard-to-find stationery, natural candles, and crafty knick knacks.
  — Brandon Perlman, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2017
• Davis drained 3s and scored on crafty drives to the hoop.
  — cleveland, 12 Mar. 2021
• Paul is crafty and one of the best at playing mind games.
  — Jason Jones, sacbee, 10 Feb. 2018
• Feeling crafty and don't mind a mess to clean up on the first day of the New Year?
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 10 Dec. 2021
• And it’s not a far journey for crafty Chicagoans to do so.
  — Joanne Cleaver, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• The crafty guard missed his first three shots and turned the ball over twice in 8:30 of play in the first quarter.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2022
• Finishes checks and is crafty in scrums along the walls.
  — Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• Get crafty or visit places around the world, all from the comfort of your own home.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
• There are so many ways to get crafty with wall art, and wall decals are one of them.
  — Alicia Mies, Good Housekeeping, 1 Sep. 2022
• In the home bullpen, a crafty old Cuban with a Fu Manchu mustache was warming up.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 Mar. 2020
• With deals proving tricky the firms have found crafty ways to expand.
  — The Economist, 27 Aug. 2020
• The 49ers’ and their old-school QB were smoked by a crafty, mobile quarterback, whom the 49ers had shunned in the draft.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 May 2021
• The crafty Broward veterans kept the ball in play and won going away 6-3, 6-2.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• At the end of the episode, Shan, a crafty young Black pastor, was blindsided and sent home.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
• But, in order to procure more saris, Sood has had to get crafty.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• Bill Belichick, creative and crafty, once had Tebow in for a whirl.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 4 May 2021
• The crafty settler was able to draw electricity from a power cord plugged into a rooftop outlet.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
• If the thief was a professional curator, then Gradel had been tricked in more ways than one: the improper valuations of some items hadn’t been a sign of ignorance but, rather, a crafty way for Higgs to disguise his identity.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024