dexterous

How To Use dexterous In A Sentence

• It is also extremely difficult to get characters on and off the stage dexterously.
• Some of these tools: the ambition, the fixation on data, the subsequent doubt about what to do with that data taken on dexterously by Justin McGuirk, and the photographs. Todd Reisz: Making Sense of the City
• Next to her, hands working dexterously on a customer's head, another woman is busily putting the finishing touches to a ‘straightback’ hairstyle.
• To the end of this the assistant now touched his pontil, upon whose end he had taken up a little more glass, and this, being twisted in a ring round the foot of the stem, divided from the pontil by a huge pair of scissors, dexterously shaped with the plyers, and finally smoothed with a battledoor, became the foot of the wine-glass. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
• We all know that sort of transaction: the squabbling, and gobbling, and popping of champagne; the smell of musk and lobster-salad; the dowagers chumping away at plates of raised pie; the young lassies nibbling at little titbits, which the dexterous young gentlemen procure. Mrs. Perkins's Ball
• An American athlete swung the wheelchair to enter the bank dexterously , the counter has resembled the tea table highly, to her again appropriate.
• The present work not only bears an interesting subject, but the artist also dexterously evokes the childhood memories of the viewer.
• Where his dexterous playing and effortless meter manipulation often buoyed the band's corybantic compositions, here, he's sadly mollified.
• Many will say, "Oh, let him bide,, because after all he is only a poor mad crazy fellow who spends his time in piling up apples in an apple cart and balancing them dexterously on the top of his nose. The Apple Cart and the British Empire
• To be dexterous in danger is a virtue; but to court danger to show it, is weakness. William Penn