deftness

Example Sentences

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Working on the variety of her game - coming forward to the net and showing more deftness - has been a key focus for Sabalenka.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

The author has a gift for describing pristine lowland forests and the majesty of trees more than 1,000 years old, and equal deftness in showing the horror of their devastation by logging and fire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Emecheta, with immense deftness and subtlety, provides a haunting and forceful attack on patriarchy, sexism and misogyny in Nigeria, and indicates how they taint and limit a nation.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

And Borgli, who serves as his own editor, weaves them into the narrative with a deftness that confounds our sense of what is and isn’t really happening.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

His pronounced cranium indicates his future deftness with mathematics and mechanical things.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides