Example sentences for: adept

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

  • He is equally adept (as we all are in this profession, though we don't like to brag about it) at making up stories and spotting those made up by others.

  • If you’ve become an adept of the tea ceremony, you’ll appreciate the excellent collection of 14th-century objects: ceramic tea bowls, tea kettles, and caddies, as well as bamboo spoons, whisks, and flower vases.

  • Local tailors are experts when it comes to producing custom-tailored garments for both men and women, and are also adept at copying patterns.

  • Malone and Walker were particularly adept at what is known today as "multilevel marketing": They traveled around the country recruiting black women as sales representatives.

  • Often dismissed as a poor military strategist intoxicated by quixotic ambitions, Hitler was in fact extremely adept at sizing up his opponents' weaknesses and understood acutely the "supreme importance of land power" with the "motorization of military movement."


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