strong suit

Example Sentences

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In his video, Rourke admitted the business end of his business has never been his strong suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

Qualifying has always been my strong suit, my best.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

Yet works of high seriousness were never his strong suit, as his rambling and distressingly unfocused Eisenhower Memorial in Washington showed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Taking the show as a sometimes fantastic historical adventure, those aren’t bad things, but, unlike the book, subtlety is not the series’ strong suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2025

Henry Dobbins was a good man, and a superb soldier, but sophistication was not his strong suit.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien