Example sentences for: knack

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

  • Though Brinkley's sympathies clearly lie with the progressives, he has a knack for portraying reactionaries.

  • Post retirement, Templeton demonstrated a knack for tapping into popular culture.

  • He has a knack for flattering reporters.

  • Director Simon West ( Con Air ) "shows a knack for underutilizing good actors while pumping up the story's gratuitously ugly side" (Maslin, the New York Times ). And in his scathing review in the Wall Street Journal , Morgenstern probably doesn't realize that his line describing the film as "soft-core porn in an expensive star package" is likely to attract rather than repel the target audience.

  • The arrival of Indian merchants, including Jains, Parsis, and Jews, turned Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta into large cities; the Company discovered a knack for large-scale administration.


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