Sentence example with the word 'dexterous'

dexterous

adept, brainy, crack, dextrous, gifted, keen-witted, nimble-witted, quick-thinking, sharp-witted, smooth, the compleat

Last update: October 6, 2015


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I found he was a most dexterous fellow at managing it, and would make it go almost as swift again as I could.   [adjective]

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Zakir Hussain is a dexterous musician.   [adjective]

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Humans, with dexterous hands, began making tools over a million years ago.   [adjective]

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It was too long, and over sharp, but by turning it sideways it would do the work under his dexterous fingers.   [adjective]

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We went frequently out with this boat a-fishing; and as I was most dexterous to catch fish for him, he never went without me.   [adjective]

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His daughter had acquired the air of a dexterous barmaid, undisturbed by the circumstances of love and war, so apt to perplex her in the exercise of her vocation.   [adjective]

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To do so was a part of the game; and many worthy people did not scruple to correct the caprice of Fortune by dexterous jugglery.   [adjective]

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In fact, as he threw himself at one dexterous dive into his former seat, Mr.   [adjective]

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Our axes, of which we had seventy, were immediately set to work to cut down trees, and, our men being dexterous in the use of them, great despatch was made.   [adjective]

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The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not.   [adjective]

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The dexterous Greeks humoured him to the top of his bent.   [Please select]

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