Example sentences for: sleight

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

  • 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.

  • The result of the sleight is that the dealer, while apparently giving the top card in the usual way, actually gives the second card instead of it.

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

  • Landsburg attempts, by economic sleight of hand, to argue that racism does not exist in corporate America because it would not be in its bottom-line interest for it to do so.


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