Example sentences for: deft

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

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

  • So Americans are entitled to surprise at Kofi Annan's deft diplomacy in Iraq last week.

  • Even in the relatively primitive procedure we had witnessed, though, Joe had been so brisk and deft and the calves so nonchalant as soon as they got back on their feet that the business had not seemed so atrocious as one might think.

  • For the first half-hour or so, he marveled at the film's deft, improvisational style.

  • They particularly like his deft black humor and "gift for genuinely shocking his audience" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Pope-basher Sinead O'Connor portrays the Virgin Mary.


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