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
-
I'm usually pretty leery of investing a lot in over-clever wordplay.
-
Christine seemed leery of remounting the horse, and justifiably so, as the rider did not seem to be capable of steering.
-
All I could hear was Jean-Luc Marnier's name and see his leery face.
A DARKENING STAIN
-
•Be leery of terms and conditions marked in prechecked boxes, because you may not be prepared to accept them.
Chicagotribune.com -
-
Ten-year yields set a record low this week as investors snapped up Treasuries on signs of slowing growth and a widening debt crisis in Europe, undeterred by Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the U.S. Bill Gross at Pacific Investment Management Co. said in a Twitter posting that investors should "be leery" of what he called "exuberance" that sent stocks up and bonds down yesterday.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
-
But I ` m really kind of leery about making -- him making bond.
CNN Transcript May 11, 2009
-
I would be leery of committing my company to employ hundreds of Indian workers, sight and skill unseen.
-
But every deliver guy was kind of leery about thiss fellow.
A quest fulfilled | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
-
Businesses were a little leery, understandably, about investing and adding jobs.
-
They are loud, leery and loaded, and come Friday night you'll find them boozing down the pub flashing the latest designer gear.
-
I would be leery of committing my company to employ hundreds of Indian workers, sight and skill unseen.
-
I often feel this way when a book is turned into a movie - leery of having the images in my mind mixed with those on a big screen.
-
When we were solid and simpatico he wandered over where we had our market stall, leaned against the ute and played his ancient squeeze-box, sang a few leery out-West ballads and variegated bush anthems, recited a bit of Banjo Patterson without the drop of a hat.
Archive 2008-07-01
-
The market turmoil and lack of good financial knowledge has made them leery of equities.
-
He's also leery of reserve land being developed in such a way.
-
Executives say they are leery of the proposed system.
-
It's therefore reasonable for me to be leery of liberals in general.
-
Executives say they are leery of the proposed system.
-
Many businesses remain leery of putting their applications and data on servers they don’t control, for example.
Google Goes After Another Microsoft Cash Cow - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
-
And, as we mentioned in the article you read, be leery of any company that asks for money up-front.
-
But the history of unionism -- or at least elements of it -- in my country have made me leery because unions are as susceptible to corruption and bastardisation as any human institution and I have no time or patience for people who declare that because unions are on the side of the workers that they are for ever and always above reproach.
Progress, and various ruminations
-
I would be leery of committing my company to employ hundreds of Indian workers, sight and skill unseen.
-
Like Lads - the real inheritors of the hippie legacy - Emin's bleary, blurry, beery, leery, lairy anti-sensualist sensibility is an advert for the vacuity of her own preferences.
-
The "Lootenant" that is leading is a leery kind of coot -
THE SLEEPER CUTTERS' CAMP
-
Crews are leery of the full-grown sperm whale bull (up to sixty feet in length), a rarer sight.
-
Range managers in Utah are now leery about gardening wild mountains.
-
U.S. Deputy Ambassador Alejandro Wolff said he was "leery" about blaming Ethiopia for what is primarily an internal Somali problem.
ANC Daily News Briefing
-
I've become leery of such statements, because I've heard them so many times.
-
I was a little bit wary or a little bit leery because he had to pick the gun up and put it in the bag, so of course I was watching what he was doing.
-
In the same article linked to above, Environment Minister Leona Dombrowsky said that she's "leery" about incineration and approves of composting.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: October 2003 Archives
-
He's also leery of reserve land being developed in such a way.
-
I am leery of superlatives but am not inclined to argue with that.
-
Before the practice took hold, some news directors, fearing pranks, were leery of airing amateur video.
-
`You should, though as a general rule burglars are leery about gaining entry from the front of a building -- too exposed.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
-
He has no credibility. We have to be leery of his proposal.
-
Yields on higher - quality companies are dramatically lower as investors feel less leery about corporate debt.
-
Obviously this sort of tendency leads a lot of people to the conclusion that you have to be really leery about urging ’something’ be done by the U.S. foreign policy establishment lest a certain militarist tendency capture that moral admonition for its own predictable purposes.
Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Genocide Prevention
-
They were leery about investing in a company controlled by a single individual.
-
If we've come to the point where the banterers are having to explain and apologise for their jokes, then presumably the joy of the thing – the roaring of rape humour across a crowded internet, that beery, leery, Friday-night amour – has been lost?
The joke's on them
-
However attractive the earnings numbers, we remain leery of businesses that never seem able to convert such pretty numbers into no-strings-attached cash.
-
I tend to be a bit leery of cut - price ` bargains '.
-
Yet Republicans remain leery of the growing Democratic push for a second economic stimulus program to be considered in September, worried that Democrats are trying to corner them with a politically appealing proposal right before the elections.
Congress Moves Toward Approving Housing Bill - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
-
This surprises me for I've always thought of him as an exacting craftsman and, therefore, leery of artistic pretensions.
-
Donald Birger, president of InstaCredit Automart, which sold more than 3,000 vehicles in 2008 through its two dealerships in Collinsville, Ill., and O'Fallon, Mo., says he initially was "leery" of the remote disabling systems, in part because he thought customers might object.
Late on a Car Loan? Meet the Disabler
-
Human-rights groups have been especially critical of what they call an escalation in army violence against ethnic minorities this year, and many U.S. congressional leaders are leery of Myanmar's ties with Pyongyang.
Clinton Encourages Myanmar
-
On the downside Craig is famously leery of publicity.
-
It appears as though our slow-witted friend randy is so leery of actually discussing the topic of Republican abuse of filibusters that he’s willing to float easily-discredited misperceptions of the Great Depression as a diversion.
Think Progress » Biden Attacks GOP Abuse Of Filibuster: ‘You Can’t Govern If You Require A Super Majority’
-
The most revivalist denominations and local churches with strong traditions of lay preaching remained leery of a process which appeared to value learning and credentialism as much as piety and calling.
-
Personally, I find the Independent so poor these days, that I'd very leery of accepting any conclusions from an article therein.
-
He is a hard worker but many of his coworkers are leery of him.
-
Feeling in need of his support, though still leery of his motives, she had given in finally.
SORT OF RICH
-
But the candidate was set in his ways, and his people were leery of tampering with his approach so late in the game.
-
But people who might benefit from genetic tests are almost as leery.
-
Fazal Majid also has another good point, one that so far has kept me leery of purchasing music online.
-
For those curious to try barefoot running but leery of Tulsa's bumpy roads, a company called Vibram has a solution: its FiveFingers running shoes.
Undefined
-
I was leery when spending so much for the initial sparkleberry bushes, but now would snap up any of these if seen at a nursery.
Sparkleberry And Winter Gold « Fairegarden
-
The very meaning of the term splinters depending upon which party one chooses to examine and some might be quite leery about the use of it.
Irish Blogs
-
We were a little leery about renting a car, having never driven on Bulgarian highways, but our fears were misplaced.
-
(Oh, jungli, be leery and listen!) "The easiest sort to detect have a door --
The Winds of the World
-
I would be leery of committing my company to employ hundreds of Indian workers, sight and skill unseen.
-
That sort of thing just makes everyone more leery of using the cybersphere.