versant
Example Sentences
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A gadget lover, Alexander is known to roll up his sleeves to become versant with the latest security technologies.
From Reuters • May 26, 2013
Little versant in their pursuits, though respectful to their genius, after mutual salutations, the divine passes on and pays an evening visit to his illustrious neighbor, Dr. Thomas Goodwin.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
I expected a corresponding formation upon the opposite eastern versant: we found only a huge crest, a spine of black plutonic rock, intensely ugly and repulsive.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Those versant in the matter can alone venture to undertake it with common hives, whereas, every cultivator can do it himself with the leaf hives.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
His literary education likewise had been so carefully attended to, that he was considered as more versant in these things than his situation required.
