Example sentences for: forte

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

  • Scheck found his forte in the mid-1980s.

  • Brownrigg's forte is her ability to emulate the "curiously banal, clever-clever, quasi-poetic style that seems to afflict so many inhabitants of cyberspace" (Geoff Nicholson, the New York Times Book Review ) in the many epistolary sections of the book, and she "wonderfully captures the ghostly dance of presence and absence that can characterize digital relationships" (Erik Davis, the Voice Literary Supplement ). (Click here to read the first chapter.)

  • As for the English word forte `strength,' it is not the feminine form of the French adjective fort `strong' but an English “feminization” of the French noun fort `strength.

  • He is a scholarship athlete, and academics are not his forte.

  • The town’s strategic role as a border-crossing is reflected in its name (Chaves means “Keys”) and by its two 17th-century fortresses (the Forte de São Francisco has been converted into a superior hotel).


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