ADROIT in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for ADROIT, such as:
1. He felt young, bright, adroit, and resolute.
2. I should work in adroit references to this evening's speeches.
3. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and the adroit man.
4. In three years he had gone off considerably, though he was still rather handsome and adroit.
5. Patience, humility, and adroitness must, in these growing black youth, replace impulse, manliness, and courage.
2. I should work in adroit references to this evening's speeches.
3. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and the adroit man.
4. In three years he had gone off considerably, though he was still rather handsome and adroit.
5. Patience, humility, and adroitness must, in these growing black youth, replace impulse, manliness, and courage.
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Meanings and Examples of ADROIT
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adroit
a. skillful and adept under pressing conditions
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master seemed pleased.
2 There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and the adroit man.
3 The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered and plaintive air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
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4 Brujon was adroit; Guelemer was vigorous.
5 In three years he had gone off considerably, though he was still rather handsome and adroit.
6 He felt young, bright, adroit, and resolute.
7 And the most experienced and adroit painter could not by mere mechanical facility paint anything if the lines of the subject were not revealed to him first.
8 And suddenly, as Selden noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate.
9 This young man had been hired out by his master to work in a bagging factory, where his adroitness and ingenuity caused him to be considered the first hand in the place.
10 Henrique, who valued himself on his gentlemanly adroitness in all matters of gallantry, soon had his fair cousin in the saddle, and, gathering the reins, placed them in her hands.
11 He saw, at a glance, that a native adroitness and handiness made the task to her an easier one than it proved to many.
12 The combination of a certain adroitness with deep-seated earnestness, of tact with consummate ability, gave him his preeminence, and helps him maintain it.
13 Patience, humility, and adroitness must, in these growing black youth, replace impulse, manliness, and courage.
14 Most people considered Lenehan a leech but, in spite of this reputation, his adroitness and eloquence had always prevented his friends from forming any general policy against him.
15 And here I should like to assert that, howsoever much, in certain respects, we Russians may be surpassed by foreigners, at least we surpass them in adroitness of manner.
Example Sentence:
1 I should work in adroit references to this evening's speeches.