SKILFUL in a Sentence
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43 example sentences for SKILFUL, such as:
1. Such is the theory of the skilful.
2. I regret it for the sake of the skilful.
3. He's a skilful player with a good turn of pace.
4. He parried the unwelcome question very skilfully.
5. Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.
2. I regret it for the sake of the skilful.
3. He's a skilful player with a good turn of pace.
4. He parried the unwelcome question very skilfully.
5. Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.
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Meanings and Examples of SKILFUL
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skilful
a. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1 Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2 Young speedily proved himself to be a skilful administrator as well as a resolute chief.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
3 He was a man of a practical turn of mind, keen in his dealings and skilful with his hands.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
4 In an instant it reared up upon its hind legs with a snort of rage, and pranced and tossed in a way that would have unseated any but a most skilful rider.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
5 Then she remembered; her dentist had told her that savages could perform very skilful operations on the brain.
6 Or for the matter of that book learning; or skilful practice on pianos; or laying on of paint.
7 Sir Walter had at first thought more of London; but Mr Shepherd felt that he could not be trusted in London, and had been skilful enough to dissuade him from it, and make Bath preferred.
8 In an instant Beppo, a skilful workman, made a small hole in the wet plaster, dropped in the pearl, and with a few touches covered over the aperture once more.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
9 As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to prepare the shipwreck.
10 The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title of Statesmen; so that this word, statesmen, has ended by becoming somewhat of a slang word.
11 If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is indispensable.
12 Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they begin to be distrustful.
13 Such is the theory of the skilful.
14 When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became apparent.
15 I regret it for the sake of the skilful.
Example Sentence:
1 Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.
2 He is widely regarded as Hungary's most skilful politician.
3 He's a skilful player with a good turn of pace.
4 Mr Kore-Eda is one of world cinema's most humane and skilful storytellers, and "Shoplifters" is another of his low-key, acutely observed, ultimately devastating studies of contemporary Japanese life.
5 He parried the unwelcome question very skilfully.