COMPETENCE in a Sentence
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92 example sentences for COMPETENCE, such as:
1. I am alive, you see, and competent.
2. Training is a prerequisite for competence.
3. She shows a high level of technical competence.
4. He's not competent to look after young children.
5. He's a competent politician, but he lacks vision.
2. Training is a prerequisite for competence.
3. She shows a high level of technical competence.
4. He's not competent to look after young children.
5. He's a competent politician, but he lacks vision.
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Meanings and Examples of COMPETENCE
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competence
n. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 With the small competence he possessed, eked out by such employment as he could pick up, he travelled from town to town through the United States in quest of his enemies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2 There was no natural disinclination to be overcome, and I see no reason why a man should make a worse clergyman for knowing that he will have a competence early in life.
3 He was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire upon a handsome competence.
4 YOUR competence and MY wealth are very much alike, I dare say; and without them, as the world goes now, we shall both agree that every kind of external comfort must be wanting.
5 Regina's would enable her, when Mrs. Peniston's legacy was paid, to realize the vision of the green-and-white shop with the fuller competence acquired by her preliminary training.
6 There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves.
7 She felt herself once more the alert and competent moulder of emergencies, and the remembrance of her power over Selden flushed her with sudden confidence.
8 The Ford Garage and the Buick Garage, competent one-story brick and cement buildings opposite each other.
9 Bea was competent; there was no household labor except sewing and darning and gossipy assistance to Bea in bed-making.
10 And so it turned out; Mr. Hosea Hussey being from home, but leaving Mrs. Hussey entirely competent to attend to all his affairs.
11 Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.
12 I am alive, you see, and competent.
13 A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power, against whose approaches Munro possessed no competent means of resistance.
14 After this incident, and as he reviewed the battle pictures he had seen, he felt quite competent to return home and make the hearts of the people glow with stories of war.
15 He may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect.
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 Training is a prerequisite for competence.
2 Students will gain competence in a wide range of skills.
3 The commission has no formal competence in cultural matters.
4 Many legal issues are within the competence of individual states rather than the federal government.
5 She shows a high level of technical competence.
6 The selection process is based on rigorous tests of competence and experience.
7 Whereas overseas companies have been shedding activities that are not related to their core competence, Indian companies seem to be going the other way.
8 A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
9 He's not competent to look after young children.
10 We assume that competent doctors emerge at the end of an obstacle course of traditional examinations based on facts.
11 He's a competent politician, but he lacks vision.
12 He was a loyal, distinguished and very competent civil servant.
13 A year of college had made her more socially competent.
14 She was praised for her competent handling of the crisis.
15 He's a competent enough officer, but I doubt he'll ever make general.