wary

How To Use wary In A Sentence

• Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
• The police will need to keep a wary eye on this area of town .
• A curious and unwary fish would become a meal when the goosefish inhaled and quickly engulfed its prey.
• In the hands of the untrained and unwary it can cause untold damage to your wealth.
• Fish were abundant, to be sure, along that coast, where the invisible fruitfulness of the sea made compensation for the blank barrenness of the land; but they were swift and wary, and had to be caught, one at a time, outwitted and outspeeded in their own element. Kings in Exile
• The cassowary evolved amid the Wet Tropics, thriving on figs, quandongs, and other distinctive fruits.
• Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies.
• Somehow that was considerate of them, but they still were wary.
• With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season.
• He was a suspicious cat, wary of people getting pensive.