deft

How To Use deft In A Sentence

• He also has a deft touch with desserts: The baklava and kadayif are subtle, less sweet and honey-drenched than most.
• The Deftones were good but suffered a muddy sound mix.
• Home is Burning is a deft piece of writing that captures the vicissitudes of family life whether in sickness or in health. Times, Sunday Times
• Minutes later Campbell scored again at the end of a deftly weighted bomb.
• The night I visited, a barback deftly chipped away at an angular, Braque-style ice block with a large spoon, taking about 90 seconds to shape something roughly the size of a baseball. Cold Fusion
• But there is much satisfaction in seeing a modern classic performed with such deftness and humour, and recognising the universality of its underlying themes.
• Basically, you'll be tugged along by a speedboat while standing atop a small surfboard-like platform, all the while performing aerial tricks and deft-defying maneuvers.
• She's accompanied here by some cracking musicians, including Cunningham himself on piano, cittern and whistles, with Ed Boyd's deft guitar and the bodhrán of Mark Maguire.
• She had crossed this road before, deftly robbing Peter to slip a rubber cheque into Paul's back pocket.
• The beautiful, full voice of the "darkey" is so attractive -- so soothing, and they are so deft and gentle. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908