Example sentences for: deftly

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

  • This is sure-fire material, and Lee structures it deftly, leaving us in the dark until the end as to why Jake--a manifestly decent, soft-spoken, cagey fellow, gorgeously underplayed by Washington--ended up in prison in the first place.

  • Were I deputized by the Osceola County Sheriff's Office to look into the matter, my primary suspect would be some Disney "cast member" in a company-supplied burglar's mask, so deftly did the crime advance the town's necessary maturation.

  • The New York Times deems the plan "sensible" and "prudent," and a Washington Post editorial observes that Clinton deftly "changed the subject from the solvency of Medicare to its adequacy."

  • For someone so appalled by celebrity, Allen exploits it deftly, casting big-name actors to fill out parts that would otherwise be recognized as pathetically underwritten.

  • 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.


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