How To Use Streetwise In A Sentence
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Her poetic styles vary from haiku to streetwise dramatic monologue, using the conventions of ‘standard’ English, as well as the defiance of Ebonics.
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A gamine ingenue to her sophisticated divorcee, she plays this streetwise waif with the same knowing naivety that made the 12-year-old such a disturbingly seductive assassin's helpmate in her first film, Leon.
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The actress has a new movie coming out called Gloria, in which she is a leggy gangster's moll who suddenly has to take care of a sassy, streetwise kid.
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One minute she would sound like a wounded angel, the next like a streetwise hellion.
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Putner's satire on the supposedly streetwise US stand-up scene is biting: he conveys masterfully the gulf between Stevens's self-image and the bathetic reality.
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It was all about how savvy, streetwise and urban you could be.
Times, Sunday Times
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Skinny suggests active. Skinny is more fashionable, more streetwise, more plugged-in, but not if you are seen to be struggling to maintain it.
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A military interpreter before he switched to journalism, he was streetwise; a Shiite who lived in a Sunni neighbourhood; a survivor.
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You had to be young, streetwise and easy to talk to as well as being able to do the practical things - literacy and numeracy, doing presentations, working with other people and all that.
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Streetwise Upper-Intermediate explores metaphors and proverbs; rhythm and stress; and the language of persuasion as used in advertising.
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Yeah, she's got grade A's in every O-level, but when it comes to general knowledge or being streetwise, she struggles a bit sometimes.
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Youngsters will also be able to make sure they are ‘on the ball’ when it comes to street crime thanks to helpful hints on how to get streetwise when shopping, hanging out with friends, pubbing or clubbing.
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In accepting the challenge of writing a chapter on the relationship between theory and research in criminology, I am streetwise enough to know that I invite at least two lines of criticism.
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You can very quickly go very high and very low in the same week and I think it makes London kids very streetwise and very society-wise.
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With the nights drawing in, overground railway stations in south-east London (the land the underground map forgot) have become a popular location for the streetwise mugger.
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The striker is only 19 but was still streetwise enough to cut across Balde as he entered the box.
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They're the bright, neon-green iguanas of mainland South America, garish, streetwise cousins of the clean-living marine iguanas of the Galápagos, with dangling dewlaps and a decadent string of fringe down their backs.
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Cool hunters are more than just streetwise fad spotters.
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Lack of experience is a slight worry but she looked streetwise on her sole outing so far.
The Sun
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A military interpreter before he switched to journalism, he was streetwise; a Shiite who lived in a Sunni neighbourhood; a survivor.
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She has all the intellectual abilities, but is more streetwise than the other two.
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I worked with inner city kids for about three years after high school, and many had the tough "streetwise" bravado that Jason talked about above.
Manhattan math - Anil Dash
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As historian Erica Doss has shown, in the 1960s the Black Panther leadership, heirs no less to this legacy than the Diggers, drew on it to create an image of masculine aggression and streetwise militance in their dress, art, and political culture ....
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
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They even share a house servant, Manuelo, more worldly and streetwise than anyone else around.
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Salt and Peppa are two streetwise and sassy girls from Queens.
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But today it is the zines, the more streetwise publications, that are taking the lead.
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The son of a wealthy Verona businessman, Catullus arrived in Rome in his early twenties and rapidly evolved from educated but provincial outsider to streetwise society songmeister.
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He was streetwise, but at the same time there was this fragility about him.
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Poulter is streetwise enough not to bite the hand that feeds.
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Sussed, sassy and streetwise, she offers a razor-sharp perspective on life.
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Another reason for the jump was the big influx of students in Sheffield who ‘were not necessarily streetwise,’ said Mr Hedges.
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In a typical shot, his lens homes in on six streetwise philosophers sitting round a table in a Mexican cantina.
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And one has to wonder, too, whether anybody who really was streetwise would get into a car so visibly marked.
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He is a bit more streetwise.
The Sun
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For a long time, Irving used his streetwise independence to dazzle career academics with the arcane quality of his research.
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Players tend to mellow and become a bit more streetwise as they get older.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could be brash, streetwise, a wheeler-dealer and charming.
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Venetian painters had pioneered the poetic narrative scene involving two or three half-length figures, but in the "Gypsy Fortune-Teller" and the "Cardsharps" both 1595, Caravaggio gave the genre a streamlined, streetwise spin—Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it "low-life drama.
The Misery Memoirist
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It was July 11, his 95th birthday, and he was being straddled from behind by a man in a bright cobalt-blue suit, with a salt-and-pepper mustache and the kind of streetwise Italian-American accent that persists more vigorously in acting classes than on the streets of Soho.
The Battle Over a Barnes & Noble in Bridgehampton
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Here we have the concept of the maverick, the hero innovator, the streetwise entrepreneur, that several speakers have described.
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Embodying opposite characteristics Maggie Butterfield is a dark-haired, streetwise extrovert, Jem Kellaway a quiet blond introvert the children form a strong bond while getting to know their unusual neighbor and his wife.
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier: Book summary
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Unfortunately, too much of Blige's appeal is wrapped up in her gruff, streetwise persona and not enough is focused on her enjoyable but often pedestrian musical instincts.
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Think modern fabrics and traditional tailoring, with streetwise twists.
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Streetwise keeps students' motivation strong ... Teenage students at intermediate level can easily become bored and frustrated.
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PC Hall said: ‘A lot of children over the age of five are very streetwise and get a basic understanding from their parents.’
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With this level of fear it is questionable to what degree today's working class children are becoming streetwise, and able to look after themselves.
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She is a very streetwise young woman.
Times, Sunday Times
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(Hat tip to Streetwise Professor, who has a posting commenting on this "dumbfounding" high rate of alcohol-related deaths in the heat of the
Robert Amsterdam
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He knew the cant of demons and devils alongside being streetwise and arrogant.
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Streetwise Javine tries admirably to stand out from the mass mediocrity of manufactured clones that constitute rivals.
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Unfortunately, it may be that the Streetwise isn't funky enough even for the shyer funksters among us.
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He is an amazingly streetwise guy with a tremendous intellect.
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Forced to play this ‘home’ fixture at Northampton, the Londoners attracted a crowd of just 3,595 and were edged out in an entertaining game by their more streetwise visitors.
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We have also got a lot more streetwise, and playing against the best sides has raised skill levels and mental awareness.
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It's stuffed full of Japanese cultural references, slang, and streetwise situations.
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Streetwise Upper-Intermediate explores metaphors and proverbs; rhythm and stress; and the language of persuasion as used in advertising.
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This trick was quite common in Kingston Hill at the time and streetwise citizens were probably becoming rather too wise to it.
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In the near future, he is planning to add a new company to cater to more streetwise fashion garments for the younger, impressionable audience.
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It seems trite to refer to this band as sassy or streetwise or sophisticated because that's what everybody says.
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There are horses in it who are a lot more streetwise.
The Sun
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The way he said the word 'streetwise' made her tense as though sustaining a blow, as though some how the words had held an insult, a gibe; and yet when she looked at him the grey eyes were still smiling, the relaxed bulk of the male body carelessly at ease, so that she knew she must have imagined the toughness, the threat which she had momentarily felt lay beneath the words.
A Time to Dream
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At the same time, a team of people living with the diseases will be conducting a 'streetwise' survey to further ascertain what the community considers a priority for action.
Delhi's new initiative to improve healthcare in the community
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He should be a lot more streetwise now and we expect him to get the job done.
The Sun
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Players tend to mellow and become a bit more streetwise as they get older.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seems to me that as "streetwise" as some of us are in some ways, we're still surprisingly trusting in others.
Devil's Advocate
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His experiences are contrasted with those of Joe, who is much more politically aware, cynical and streetwise.
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I am streetwise and clever and realise that any other course of action might have led to me having my head kicked in.
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WASHINGTON -- Republican Party chairman Michael Steele defended his stewardship of party affairs Monday and dismissed criticism as the talk of GOP figures uncomfortable with his "streetwise" managerial style.
TheDenverChannel.com - Local News
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A middle-class pastor and his snobbish wife come up against their streetwise downtown family.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sidewalk swarmed with streetwise children.
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In contrast, the streetwise dealers require quicker money, and may end up in a bucket shop on the Continent.
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Streetwise keeps students' motivation strong ... Teenage students at intermediate level can easily become bored and frustrated.
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In contrast, the streetwise dealers require quicker money, and may end up in a bucket shop on the Continent.
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We should have been a lot more streetwise and also grasped a lot more what it meant and what an opportunity it was.
Times, Sunday Times
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At dusk, some of the more streetwise black and white birds hang about on the suburb's street corners like 1950s greasers.
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She would say that she was streetwise and it wouldn't happen to her, but I was terrified.
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He is fiendishly bright, well-spoken in a very clipped, Scottish kind of way, but streetwise too; a bit like a smartly dressed bookie who views the world through a veil of tobacco smoke and shrewdness.
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For example, Irish step dance, Appalachian clogging and a new generation of inventive and streetwise tap artists began to find appreciative audiences.
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You have to be streetwise," said knotholer Tim Coppola, looking up at another hazard: objects such as beer bottles tumbling from the stadium wall above.
Watching Baseball Through 'Knothole' Isn't Naughty When Giants Play
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Players tend to mellow and become a bit more streetwise as they get older.
Times, Sunday Times
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They've just got to be a little bit more streetwise and that comes through making mistakes - as long as they learn from them.
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The designer said she's trying her hand at streetwise fashion with a musical twist.
