Example sentences for: deft

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

  • Elliot Goldenthal, the best film composer now working, has written typically imaginative music, rich in jagged harmony and deft scoring.

  • The public longs for a deft campaigner who doesn't seem prepackaged.

  • Ted Bernstein, when he was assistant managing editor of The New York Times , published a house organ, “Winners and Sinners,” that offered kudos for the occasional “bright passage” or deft metaphor and cited questionable and nonstandard grammar and usage that appeared in the newspaper.

  • He's in fact so deft with the "telling" incident that he doesn't bother to fill in facts you really want to know.

  • (The line between a deft, strategic withdrawal and a collapse of credibility is in the eye of the beholder.)


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