How to Use crafty in a Sentence

crafty

adjective

• Birkenstock shoes are known for their crafty contoured cork and, for the most part, have a pretty standard look: cork sole, straps, done.
  — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 31 Mar. 2017
• Lana Del Rey is crafty—and should maybe consider a side hustle as a beauty blogger.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2017
• With relatives coming for dinner, Falkowski was inspired to get crafty with her main course.
  — Sarah Horner, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2017
• Getty To partake in the trend, crafty types can sew their own, while those who can't thread a needle might look for solid colors.
  — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 15 Mar. 2017
• Watching a crafty filmmaker swing for the fences is commendable—even when the result is near-total collapse.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 7 Feb. 2017
• Leave it to Proenza Schouler to infuse luxe stingray with crafty whip stitching and enamel hardware for the next must-have bag.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Apr. 2012
• To study their social interactions , scientists had to get crafty with toothpicks and a few bottles of nail polish.
  — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2012
• But beyond cutting back on clutter, Crook also had to get seriously crafty with his furniture.
  — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 2 Feb. 2017
• For spring, Lizzie Fortunato, who along with her sister Kathryn, has been turning out crafty rings, necklaces...
  — Rebecca Malinsky, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2017
• Get crafty: Set out a bunch of koozies (insulated sleeves to keep cans cold) and Sharpies, and encourage people to decorate their own.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2017
• Its tight play—the entire course covers only about one-third the acreage of Augusta—and treacherous bunkers set up perfectly for his brand of consistent play and crafty shot shaping.
  — Harry Hurt, Town & Country, 8 Apr. 2014
• 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
• One gets crafty after a while and learns how to save oneself.
  — Julie Miller, HWD, 8 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Others even got crafty with the masks by tie-dying them or adding beads to the ties for some flair.
  — Christina Butan, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Afterward, the always cunning and crafty Larys gets a private word with Aegon and points out that Otto controlled Viserys for years.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 16 June 2024

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025