And so they wente forth chidyng together, tyll the shrewde boye led the poore man against a post: where hittyng his brow a great blow, he cryed out: A hoorson boy, what hast thou done?
Hereby ye may perceyue, that a man can not haue a shrewde tourne, but otherwhyle a mocke withall.
Lytyll Johnn there hym bethought On a shrewde wyle; Fyve myle in the forest he ran, Hym happëd all his wyll.
I make myn avowe to God,’ said the coke, ‘Thou arte a shrewde hynde In ani hous for to dwel, For to aske thus to dyne.
Whych both Hygham and Jermyn hath suffred my maister hafe, savyng your reverence, tweyn shrewde tornys seth that they mizt hafe letted, as now the seyd Thomas Hygham myzt hafe letted the presentment or a moderated othyrwyse, &c.
We found that which was tolde vs to be true: for the maiz was now ripe: but by this good lucke one shrewde turne happened vnto me.
Recommend me to your shrewde wil, and mine other sonnes, and to John Harris my frende, and your selfe knoweth to whome els, and to my shrewde wife above all, and God preserve you all and make and kepe you his servantes all.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrewde" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
