COMPETENT in a Sentence
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92 example sentences for COMPETENT, such as:
1. He is competent for the task.
2. They competed for a pretty girl.
3. I am alive, you see, and competent.
4. They competed with skill and tenacity.
5. He's not competent to look after young children.
2. They competed for a pretty girl.
3. I am alive, you see, and competent.
4. They competed with skill and tenacity.
5. He's not competent to look after young children.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of COMPETENT
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competent
a. properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient
a. adequate for the purpose
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves.
2 She felt herself once more the alert and competent moulder of emergencies, and the remembrance of her power over Selden flushed her with sudden confidence.
3 The Ford Garage and the Buick Garage, competent one-story brick and cement buildings opposite each other.
4 Bea was competent; there was no household labor except sewing and darning and gossipy assistance to Bea in bed-making.
5 And so it turned out; Mr. Hosea Hussey being from home, but leaving Mrs. Hussey entirely competent to attend to all his affairs.
6 Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.
7 I am alive, you see, and competent.
8 A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power, against whose approaches Munro possessed no competent means of resistance.
9 After this incident, and as he reviewed the battle pictures he had seen, he felt quite competent to return home and make the hearts of the people glow with stories of war.
10 He may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect.
11 Mr. Drummle," said I, "you are not competent to give advice on that subject.
12 With your branch of the subject, on which alone you are competent to speak, I should not think of interfering.
13 She was very good and competent, and she soon knew how to have him in her power.
14 Give me the child of any healthy, normally intelligent man, and I will make a perfectly competent Chatterley of him.
15 Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education and average intelligence.
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
2 He's not competent to look after young children.
3 We assume that competent doctors emerge at the end of an obstacle course of traditional examinations based on facts.
4 He's a competent politician, but he lacks vision.
5 He was a loyal, distinguished and very competent civil servant.
6 A year of college had made her more socially competent.
7 She was praised for her competent handling of the crisis.
8 He's a competent enough officer, but I doubt he'll ever make general.
9 He is competent for the task.
10 She was mentally competent and she had the capacity to decide for herself.
11 I do not speak to the feeble, or think of them: I address only such as are worthy of the work, and competent to accomplish it.
12 And when it comes to helping other national economies actually grow and lift millions of citizens from abject poverty, it is difficult to identify anyone whose words and actions in demonstrating what competent, clean, determined leadership can do have had more impact.
13 The banks have long competed with American Express's charge cards and various store cards.
14 They competed for a pretty girl.
15 They competed with skill and tenacity.