canny

How To Use canny In A Sentence

• It was a brave gamble, a bid for power, by an ambitious, clever and canny politician who saw his career facing a premature end.
• Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
• There is also an uncanny correlation of azimuthal phases between $\ell = 3$ and $\ell = 5$. Science Press Release Synopses
• There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
• As a lightweight, he carried a pretty solid wallop to go along with his uncanny ring generalship.
• He has an uncanny feeling for being in the right spot at the right time and the opposing goalkeeper can only watch and cry. The Sun
• He earned the sobriquet from an uncanny ability to always pick the right stocks. Times, Sunday Times
• An uncanny silence descended on a school as pupils made a superhuman effort to clamp their lips tightly shut.
• stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures
• Some canny moves in the three weeks until the end of the current tax year can save you thousands of pounds. Times, Sunday Times