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  • She wished she had run out when he'd first walked in, but she had stopped being wary, stopped being afraid.   (source)
  • My dad smiled, talked, and was shocked and nervous when the gun was pulled on him. Shouldn't he have been wary all along?   (source)
    wary = careful or distrustful
  • At first he watched the younger boys with wary concentration, then he began to bait them.†   (source)
  • In our country, where the army has seized power so many times, people are often wary of the military, particularly those from Swat, where the army had taken so long to act against the Taliban.†   (source)
  • Baba met Hassan's wary—and puzzled—eyes.†   (source)
  • They look wary and exhausted.†   (source)
  • Officer Delinko braked the Crown Victoria and peered warily through the windshield.†   (source)
  • All of the airmen were wary of Green Hornet.†   (source)
  • He cast a wary eye around the sleeping witches and wizards on the walls.†   (source)
  • A little more than a year after McCandless's death he regards the world through wary blue eyes.†   (source)
  • Asher looked warily at him.†   (source)
  • Wary of giving away game plans, the heirs decided the questions would be written out, but no names were to be signed.†   (source)
  • Definitely …. definitely not an ordinary situation," he said, giving Essay and Baboo a wary gaze.†   (source)
  • Peter's still watching me warily.†   (source)
  • I said warily.†   (source)
  • Be wary of him above all.†   (source)
  • He must always be wary of this man whose soul is colder than his scalpel.†   (source)
  • Thomas replied, wary.†   (source)
  • "Sure thing," the clerk replied warily.†   (source)
  • Sophie's eyes were wary.†   (source)
  • One stood back while the other stepped forward warily.†   (source)
  • "Yes," I said warily.†   (source)
  • Wary of potential violence, several states implemented reforms to eliminate the most abusive practices.†   (source)
  • That Silas had volunteered to be the boy's guardian had weight—Silas was regarded with a certain wary awe by the graveyard folk, existing as he did on the borderland between their world and the world they had left.†   (source)
  • Granddad peered around the table in wary silence.†   (source)
  • Cole eyed the stick warily as Edwin waded out into the clear pond.†   (source)
  • He too had been wary of the notion when it occurred to him.†   (source)
  • He urged Judge Oliver to be wary.†   (source)
  • Meg eyed the principal warily, and ran her tongue over the barbed line of her braces.†   (source)
  • Grover studied me warily.†   (source)
  • In the south, the stegosaur was swinging its spiked tail, warily circling the baby tyrannosaur, which watched it, bemused, and occasionally lunged forward to nip ineffectually at the spikes.†   (source)
  • I was also still wary of him.†   (source)
  • I remember Rose turned and looked at me across the yard, and I remember a momentary inner clang, an instinctive certainty that wariness was called for, but then Caroline looked up and smiled, waved me over.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure the princess has her reasons," Dorian said warily, disgusted by his mother's unspoken prejudice.†   (source)
  • She still looks wary of me.†   (source)
  • He never seemed wary.†   (source)
  • Let the past make you wary, by all means.†   (source)
  • When they settled down, they stared at him warily.†   (source)
  • But Frau Elena watches the boys with wary eyes: not so long ago they were feral toddlers skulking in their cots and crying for their mothers.†   (source)
  • Tribesmen were also wary of consulting them, because it would be impossible to be effective in battle if one knew that he was fated to die.†   (source)
  • Warily, she moved backward away from him, but he made no move to attack her, and did not even look up.†   (source)
  • She turned to her childhood friend and a faint, wary smile played about her eyes and lips.†   (source)
  • He looked back at me warily with one eye.†   (source)
  • She nods as I speak, her eyes wide, wary and perhaps even hopeful.†   (source)
  • Aria looked around warily.†   (source)
  • Sampson asked warily.†   (source)
  • As a newcomer Molly had liked the distance her persona created, the wariness and mistrust she saw in the eyes of her peers.†   (source)
  • Even as her obsession grew I remained wary of her, until that last week before Christmas when she saw something in the hallway of our school.†   (source)
  • For a few hours those wary anxious eyes had been filled with shining trust and happiness.†   (source)
  • But I was wary; it seemed too good to be true.†   (source)
  • I realize that we are often wary of making these kinds of broad generalizations about different cultural groups, and with good reason.†   (source)
  • Will knelt, looked around warily, and snatched it up.†   (source)
  • "The Pantheon?" he asks warily.†   (source)
  • I ask warily but less belligerently.†   (source)
  • Cinder allowed one more wary scan of the crowd before the first tickle of giddiness stirred inside her.†   (source)
  • Ralph moved, bent down, kept a wary eye on Jack.†   (source)
  • He looked at me warily.†   (source)
  • "Sal?" called Master Elihu Lockton, thinner from his exile, eyes bloodshot and wary.†   (source)
  • I am sincere and she knows this, but she is still wary.†   (source)
  • But the fire was there and he approached warily, from a long way off.†   (source)
  • It was, again, a gracious gesture, and, unlike Dink, Carby did not seem wary.†   (source)
  • I look up at him warily, but I do what he says.†   (source)
  • Warily he eyed me when I came in, nostrils flaring if I made too much noise with the silverware or the cereal bowl.†   (source)
  • So you have to be wary of birds, Francis, birds and Englishmen.†   (source)
  • "I know," she says quickly, defensively, but stays frozen where she is, watching me warily.†   (source)
  • The cockerel patrolled some distance away, warily twitching his head and groaning.†   (source)
  • GINNY and HARRY watch each other warily.†   (source)
  • Artemis felt his way across the room, wary of the low-level clothes chests scattered about the floor.†   (source)
  • Her uncle is also wary of the drug-addicted teenager.†   (source)
  • Moving warily, he scrambled back down the slope of the roof on his hands and knees past the line of demarcation where the fresh green Bird shingles gave way to the section of roof he had just finished clearing.†   (source)
  • Joe eyed me warily, but didn't contradict me.†   (source)
  • He kept one eye on the radar map, and kept glancing warily into the rearview mirror.†   (source)
  • I'd also learned in Fallujah to keep my helmet cinched tight, wary of the chips and cement frags that flew from the battered masonry during a firefight.†   (source)
  • I'd slide this awful story off my shoulders, flatten it, sketch out our crimes like a failed battle plan and shake it in the faces of my neighbors, who are wary of me already.†   (source)
  • They seem wary of me; the sight of my spyglass makes them scatter in an instant.†   (source)
  • The creatures which had lived there before were small and tough and infinitely wary, and so were the creatures imported from Old Earth, including the human kind.†   (source)
  • Lemming was wary of kids with bad grades, criminal records, or anything else that suggested they'd never get to college, much less through it.†   (source)
  • The hostile, wary looks of the goatherds on the trail were typical, but they did not reflect the views of the majority.†   (source)
  • I was a little wary of Marcus.†   (source)
  • I was wary now.†   (source)
  • Burnham loved Chicago for the opportunity it afforded, but he grew wary of the city itself.†   (source)
  • Warily I accepted it.†   (source)
  • Reverend Lanier greeted me warily in his study.†   (source)
  • Besides being doubtful he'd be able to get the generator into the canoe, he was wary of picking up anything of value.†   (source)
  • By this point, Hiro's face was frozen in a wary, astonished position that Juanita later made extensive use of in her work.†   (source)
  • The uproar left him wary of backing political candidates.†   (source)
  • Inside the ward, all the nurses look toward the door, their heavy eyes wary.†   (source)
  • We tried to soak up Pancho's leanness, his half-smile and tight eyes that made him look so knowledgeable, unafraid and wary.†   (source)
  • He's one of those shadowy people you can't imagine ever having been a kid; the kind of man a dog circles warily, his hackles at attention.†   (source)
  • A heavyset man emerged from the raised cubicle in the far corner and moved warily toward her, head tilted to get a clearer sightline.†   (source)
  • Dustfinger followed warily, with his battered backpack over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • A squirrel, halfway up the wide trunk of a maple tree, watched them warily.†   (source)
  • On the days that the radio played Ammu's songs, everyone was a little wary of her.†   (source)
  • Nicholas Flamel approached the rats warily.†   (source)
  • Clary watched him warily as he bit into it.†   (source)
  • However - and I say this with some pride and gratitude - Lord Darlington never made any efforts to conceal things from my own eyes and ears; I can recall on numerous occasions, some personage breaking off in mid-sentence to glance warily towards my person, only for his lordship to say: 'Oh, that's all right.†   (source)
  • I'm a bit of an acquired taste in that sense, and after only one semester, some were still noticeably wary of me.†   (source)
  • He believed me, or at least he said he did, but he still sounded wary, a little anxious.†   (source)
  • He's a little wary about the Official, too.†   (source)
  • Be wary of folly.†   (source)
  • I don't know if it's another case of his being wary of committing to something he might not be able to hold on to, or if he has confused the music studio with his studio apartment.†   (source)
  • The face of a '30s screwball-movie queen doesn't always translate in our pixie-princess times, but I know from our years together that men like my sister, a lot, which puts me in that strange brotherly realm of being both proud and wary.†   (source)
  • They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love.†   (source)
  • Wells glanced at him warily, then gave a curt nod.†   (source)
  • Wariness veiled his eyes when he glanced at the Reverend Mother, but this time he nodded to her, the nod one gives an equal.†   (source)
  • He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.†   (source)
  • A bit nervously, Colton slunk back around the couch and faced his mom again, this time much more warily.†   (source)
  • Somehow, having Marley aboard with us, and seeing how strangers eyed him so warily, gave us a sense of peace we might not have had otherwise.†   (source)
  • A man of his size, Horace thought, must take it as a duty to imply no menace or risk that his neighbors will be wary of him.†   (source)
  • He was rather wary of the stranger.†   (source)
  • I gave Doctor Nolan a wary look.†   (source)
  • They all looked at me warily, except for the cook, who draped a towel over her shoulder and began to whet a knife of the sort used to chop the heads off fish.†   (source)
  • Fox shot off toward the edge, spooked enough to send a couple of wary looks over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • They were split between admiration and wariness of his dangerous presence among them.†   (source)
  • He would answer her, but warily at first, as if he was waiting to be sure just who she was.†   (source)
  • They stared at each other warily for several seconds and then hugged each other for much longer.†   (source)
  • "They tried getting this fencer yesterday, some of the standard enforcers, but it seems he has certain sword skills that made them wary, but I think I have a trick that will work" The quiet one hurried along behind, dragging the wagon.†   (source)
  • Though he didn't know it, moments like this were particularly important to him, for they were transforming him from an eager, confident naval officer with a ringing voice into an inert, though wary, zek.†   (source)
  • "Okay," I said warily.†   (source)
  • 'Yes,' he said warily.†   (source)
  • Mahtob clutched at me warily as the doctor examined the wound and assembled his instruments.†   (source)
  • And Yves became less wary and less tight.†   (source)
  • There they saw a small, trembling rabbit that lay partially strangled as it eyed them warily.†   (source)
  • The convention was a success, yet I remained wary, as the prime mover behind it was the party.†   (source)
  • The head of the block appeared, his face reflecting the general wariness.†   (source)
  • A few of my fellow Scholars look twice at me, some with wariness, others with sympathy.†   (source)
  • A little warily, she summoned her team, who gathered in front of the referee some ten yards from their bench.†   (source)
  • Mark was watching him less warily now.†   (source)
  • Since leaving the warren of the snares they had become warier, shrewder, a tenacious band who understood each other and worked together.†   (source)
  • I don't know if her desire finally won out, or if I'd managed to exhaust even her wariness, but by the time she appeared, peeking out from around her dressing room's door, I was so relieved I almost cried.†   (source)
  • When Stoddard turned out to be a regular worker, punctual, amenable to discipline, he congratulated himself, and praised his assistant, but warily.†   (source)
  • Annette seemed scared of most other prisoners, but not Nina, who was Brooklyn street-smart, and just as wary of others as Annette: "They're all wackos—they make me sick."†   (source)
  • I watched him warily while I coughed the water out of my lungs.†   (source)
  • At first wary of the boy's reputation, Sasha saw something in him that others missed.†   (source)
  • At our noisy advance, the cougar paused, glancing warily back and forth between Ethan and me.†   (source)
  • Lorena felt wary.†   (source)
  • The aid worker, wary of the trafficker's enticements, persuaded Neth not to take the risk.†   (source)
  • "Miss Doyle," she says, peering up at me warily, "are you quite sure the odor on your breath is from marmalade and not some other substance?"†   (source)
  • I was a bit wary of relationships because I'd seen that most of the ones in my family didn't work out.†   (source)
  • George Dougett cleared his throat, looked warily at his wife and said, "Some other things I saw."†   (source)
  • They forgave him, but continued to keep a wary eye out for signs of drug usage.†   (source)
  • I knew there was a lot of politics involved in these competitions, and my experiences in China had made me wary of going to Russia.†   (source)
  • "Yes, America," Mortenson said, warily.†   (source)
  • Ben was leaning on the wall, cradling his rifle and eyeing Evan warily, like he was sure any second Evan would bolt out of bed and make another attempt to take us out.†   (source)
  • I could hear the wariness in her voice, like a curtain going down.†   (source)
  • Their lives up until then had been kids' lives: hunting, fishing, paper routes; the movies, adventure programs on the radio, altar duties at church; first wary contact with girls.†   (source)
  • He and SEEf faced each other warily.†   (source)
  • "Give me something to do," she says, with just the barest hint of wariness.†   (source)
  • Be bold, but wary!†   (source)
  • John whispered back, keeping a wary eye on the dragon, "as opposed to, well, regular dragons?"†   (source)
  • She has the same wary expression as we leave the restaurant.†   (source)
  • Claire looked at me warily.†   (source)
  • She scooped Claudia into her arms, and Claudia rode round in circles with her, her own small face alert and wary behind her smile.†   (source)
  • Yossarian eyed everyone he saw warily when he returned to the squadron from the hospital.†   (source)
  • Since no cows were playing among the waves in front of him, I knew that he did not have a herd of his own, and for that reason would not be so wary or quickly angered.†   (source)
  • "You speak of wonderful things," my father ventured warily.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Lincoln backed down the porch steps warily, and disappeared into the darkness of the old Desert Sand.†   (source)
  • When he finally quiets, both men are staring at him with wary, glazed smiles, and Cedric Jennings knows, at long last, that the time has come for him to leave this place behind.†   (source)
  • He did the same, and we faced each other warily, waiting to see who would speak the first word.†   (source)
  • "We're alive," Emma replied, looking around warily.†   (source)
  • But I couldn't help feeling wary.†   (source)
  • I'm a bit wary, because I know Smith's doesn't like you copying down stuff out of their books.†   (source)
  • The street was lined with wary onlookers who, like us, had been indoors much too long.†   (source)
  • Rachelle and Johan separated and circled each other warily.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, Herschel was wary of Lettie Lang.†   (source)
  • But Roonwit said, "Sire, be wary in your just wrath.†   (source)
  • Still tense and wary despite having chosen to speak.†   (source)
  • Watching him warily, I got to my feet.†   (source)
  • He had no idea what shape it would be, but he was wary of it.†   (source)
  • At Yardley's Ferry, where Greene's troops crossed, the river was iced over, just thick enough for the men to pick their way warily across, but too thin for horses and cannon.†   (source)
  • Eve was already wary.†   (source)
  • But like her, I am wary of things that seem too good, too much.†   (source)
  • The American's speech was distinctly Deep South, his smile genuine, his eyes wary but unafraid.†   (source)
  • And without any coaxing, he went back to the water and after a few wary sniffs, drank as if nothing had happened.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Lourdes's wandering eye, like a wary spy, fixes on the quarters sliding across the counter to Maribel.†   (source)
  • His voice had barely changed, but a new alertness colored it, a shade of wariness.†   (source)
  • I went closer, and then a little closer still, but keeping warily out of range, I judged, of those spidery arms.†   (source)
  • They are wary, Director.†   (source)
  • Better to have Monroe and Sinatra and the Mafia as enemies whom he can view from a wary distance, rather than as friends who could drag him down.†   (source)
  • I can tell he's a formidable opponent by the way the others warily approach him even though he is injured and far outnumbered.†   (source)
  • The track workers, the switchmen, the yardmen, who had always greeted her, anywhere along the line, their cheerful grins boasting that they knew who she was-had now looked at her stonily, turning away, their faces wary and closed.†   (source)
  • Iris approaches warily, then plunks herself down between us.†   (source)
  • That was what made me different from my classmates, and I soon began to feel isolated from them and some of them to be wary of me.†   (source)
  • Mark approached the door warily.†   (source)
  • Even though this was rarely enforced, many plantation owners were wary that the contracts might be upheld by the government or British interference.†   (source)
  • He displayed an ambition I didn't recognize, or more, one I hadn't yet envisioned as something a Korean man would find significant or worthy of energy and devotion; he didn't seem afraid like my mother and father, who were always wary of those who would try to shame us or mistreat us.†   (source)
  • She was not angry, but wary.†   (source)
  • Conrad is looking at her warily.†   (source)
  • The rest of the family edged around her warily.†   (source)
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