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Example sentences for "chary"

Lexicographically close words:
chartre; charts; chartularies; charwoman; charwomen; charyte; chascun; chase; chased; chaser
  1. Maurice believed that he could detect a new note in her voice this morning; and he tried to make her speak, in order that he might hear it; but she was as chary of her words as of her looks.

  2. O therefore, love, be of thyself so wary, As I not for myself but for thee will; Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.

  3. Her majesty frowned; but the audience applauding, the queen, ever chary in checking any popular feeling, reserved her anger till the following day, when Tarleton was banished from the royal presence.

  4. They are chary of allowing that the women's story was true; naively they attach more importance to its confirmation by men.

  5. Steadfast devotion is chary of mortgaging the future by promises.

  6. She took an omnibus eastward, and sought a neighbourhood which most decently dressed people would have been chary of entering after nightfall, or indeed at any other time, unless compelled to do so.

  7. They call it the Tetragrammaton because they are chary of pronouncing the four consonants of the all-too-sacred name of Jehovah, but, “in their heart they abuse and blaspheme God.

  8. Alexandra Andreievna, unlike her husband, was rather reserved and chary of endearments.

  9. It made him very unhappy and more chary in future of confiding his plans to his friends.

  10. This alacrity was not consistent with their earlier diatribes against military despotism; but the fact was that since "lyddite" had been found out the experts were chary of making it, and the public still more chary of drinking it.

  11. Often reading and discoursing on poets and their work, but chary of any exuberance of praise; if ever cynical, tending that way under such provocation.

  12. People who keep fine gentlemen are very chary and scrupulous whom they select, and extremely inquisitive and searching in their inquiries.

  13. Be chary of underscorings and postscripts.

  14. This confusion, in projective Geometry, shows the importance of a name, and should make us chary of allowing new meanings to obscure one of the fundamental properties of space.

  15. We must also take our own bedding and blankets, as the Chinese ideas of cleanliness are such as to make us chary of using any of theirs.

  16. He has always been wanting, however, in character, and consequently managers of schools became chary of engaging him as a teacher in any of them.

  17. The mistress of a home is as wax in the hands of her cook, whose words, as far as the table is concerned, are a law that even she would be very chary of opposing.

  18. Only a few words,' said the jockey, 'they were always chary in teaching me any.

  19. Sykes used to study furtively a small book called French, and how to speak it, but he was very chary of speaking it, and seemed to prefer a deaf-and-dumb language of his own.

  20. They grew more and more chary of human speech, and listening posts talked with the trenches by pulls on a fishing-reel.

  21. The old man, too, was chary of his praise, though Nick tried hard to please him, and it was only by little things he told his satisfaction.

  22. Both her independence and her unselfishness made her very chary of giving trouble.

  23. It was hard, for the girls had not been chary of time, money, or trouble to fit themselves for their occupation.

  24. The story flew all about Versailles, and people were chary after that in offering real or pretended condolences to Count Saxe.

  25. Her short linsey petticoat was not chary of showing her substantial ankles, while her rolled-up sleeves displayed a pair of arms so red and robust that a Swiss milkmaid might well have envied them.

  26. The Abenaquais were chary of their information, however: they would only say she was a great white lady, and as good as any saint in the calendar.

  27. Had he been but our baron, and no more, We should have been most chary of our lives; But he was our confederate, and Bertha Honor'd the people.

  28. Say, are thy youthful hours Doled in such niggard measure, that thou must Be chary of them to thy aged uncle?

  29. They generally select some weaker member of a herd, and are chary of attacking a strong big-boned, horned animal.

  30. And well may the pear-tree do this, it is so chary of color upon its fruit.

  31. Two things Nature is not chary of--fear and pain.

  32. He'll see how they wander about in batches into all sorts of unexpected places, and he will be very chary about rootling up the cache whilst they are in the neighbourhood and likely to disturb him.

  33. He was a bit chary of stepping down amongst the prickly scrub on the inner side, and so as he was taking his time about it, I stood up and watched him.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afraid; backward; calculating; canny; careful; cautious; chary; circumspect; conservative; considerate; discreet; distrustful; economic; economical; economizing; forehanded; frugal; gingerly; guarded; leery; mistrustful; parsimonious; provident; prudent; reluctant; safe; saving; scrimping; shy; spare; sparing; suspecting; suspicious; thrifty; vigilant; wary; watchful