How To Use leery In A Sentence
- RANDY STRICKER, THOMSON RESIDENT: I'm kind of leery a little bit, I guess. CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2009
- When you've been bitten by a snake, you're leery of a lizard.
- Unless a gobbler is the absolute king of the woods he can be leery of other birds, and that includes your decoys. Phil Bourjaily's New Tricks for Old Turkeys
- While I support the promotion of contraceptive pills, and think that having reliable means of chemical contraception is an important tool for allowing people to regulate their family size and for avoiding the societal and environmental dangers of overpopulation, I would be very leery of talk about ‘reproductive autonomy’ as some sort or absolute right, for men or women, because of what it carries in its train. Matthew Yglesias » Show Me the Votes
- A recurring reference on the Internet in China is that northerners and inlanders are itching for a showdown with Taiwan, while southerners and coastal inhabitants, who have the most to lose in a war, are leery of confrontation.
- They're a little leery of actually trying to amend the Constitution.
- All of this anecdotal evidence has made me leery of the concept.
- We're a little leery of the term "compatibility issue. Ars Technica
- I’m leery of it in some ways, because part of my issue with the inaccuracy of cisgender is that it privileges gender identification more than anything. Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
- So it degenerates into a species of word-juggleery that at first astonishes by its unexpectedness, then pleases by its dexterity, and finally offends by reason if its misplaced ingenuity. 2009 March | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS