Example sentences for: sleight

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

  • Somewhere in the middle comes my ideal black comedy, in which humans are base but their emotions have weight, and the human condition, while irremediable, is leavened by the artist's cheery sleight of hand.

  • Note the rhetorical sleight of hand.

  • To the families involved in the Woburn tragedy, the real climax of this story isn't the downbeat ending of the book or the sleight of hand, "let's call the Environmental Protection Agency," upbeat ending of the movie.

  • Consequently, there's much improvisation and sleight of hand involved when anyone throws around numbers.

  • We've invited four of our favorite hacks to compete in four weekly journalistic events designed to showcase journalistic glibness, intellectual sleight of hand, greed under pressure, and a total disregard for what the rest of the world thinks.


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