Example sentences for: deftly

How can you use “deftly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It may have been the doughy look of earnest concentration on the young man's ample cheeks, or it may have been his habit, at the conclusion of every dazzling, double-stopped arpeggio, of deftly lifting his bow off the strings with a satisfied air--a happy pastry chef, pleased and relieved to have given the world one more perfect Linzer torte.

  • Before graduating from Loyola Law School in 1993, Zucker interviewed with a prestigious Santa Monica law firm and deftly matched wits with the partners over lunch at an upscale restaurant.

  • The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.

  • Tripp has said she immediately suspected the TP was too deftly crafted to have originated with Lewinsky.

  • Some leads so deftly encapsulate the article to follow that the reader instantly knows he'd sooner be struck blind than read on.


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