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Example sentences for: proficiency

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

Scorsese's technical proficiency won him some early breaks.
The Wilmot Proviso ? The Missouri Compromise ? Our problems may have begun even earlier: In Massachusetts, prospective teachers recently complained that one reason so many of them fared poorly on a teaching proficiency test was that they were unfairly expected to comprehend a passage from the Federalist Papers --in many ways, the essential gloss on our entire constitutional system.
The story details widespread cheating on the company's Louisiana state school principals' test and the English proficiency exams it administers as part of the citizenship process.
It may not be an immediately obvious fact, but it is significant that the people who ask the question--strangers, who telephone me--are quite articulate, from which I deduce that one must have reached some proficiency in language before becoming aware that there might be some deficiency.
But I should have thought that lawyers could have learned these and other “one-legged subjunctives’ from congressmen, cabinet ministers, and television talk-show guests who demonstrate extraordinary proficiency in such equivocations.