How To Use Dexterously In A Sentence
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In Travelling Companions is foreshadowed Jamess later skill in the description of ancient landscape and architecture; in At Isella, his habit of rounding out a story from the most flying hint; and in The Sweetheart of Mr. Briseux, at least in patches, his smoothly ironical, dexterously enwinding style.
Chapter 8. Henry James
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Troy threw the coin dexterously across the front plot and over the fence towards Gabriel, who shunned it in its fall, his face turning to an angry red.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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The girl blew into the pipe with her fingers moving dexterously.
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How does it go?" asked Max, who was in a sixteen-foot canvas canoe like the one Steve handled so dexterously; while Bandy-legs, fearing to trust to anything so frail, had insisted on getting one of the older type lapstreak cedar boats, that were so marvelously beautiful in his eyes.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
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He came in at this period and very dexterously disembarrassed the administration of these disputes by calling the notables to advise the form of calling and constituting the States.
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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
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She clicks the top of her pen several times and flips it dexterously around her fingers like a majorette twirling a baton.
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From the viewpoint of aircraft dynamics, the required air-input reduced, the performance of mechanics improved and the components of the system got dexterously and compactly.
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All of a sudden, as he still trips dexterously enough among the dangers of a double-faced career, thinking no great evil, humming to himself the trillo, Fate takes the further conduct of that matter from his hands, and brings him face to face with the consequences of his acts.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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She quickly and dexterously gathered it all up in her free hand, and smiled up at Mercer.
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Seating himself on his accustomed stool, he began to weave the splits dexterously in an out.
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The erudition is dexterously deployed, with a heartening leaven of demotic obscenity.
Cassocks and Codpieces
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The labor of moles dig dexterously underground.
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She waited till they had crossed Constitution with the rest of the crowd, watching the bumblebee bicyclist surge ahead, weaving his way dexterously through pedestrians, disappearing down 17th, her face tight and closed.
For the Sake of the Boy
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The reverend gentleman, however, had not been unobservant of the charms of other maidens with whom he had been brought in contact, so, it may be presumed that his heart had "yearned" in vain for them; or, peradventure, these had not played with him so dexterously, when once hooked, as did the fair
She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.
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It is also extremely difficult to get characters on and off the stage dexterously.
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I could also hide my skill very dexterously, which is generally found a work of great difficulty, and judiciously winning or losing, I contrived to make it answer my purpose, -- until one day, going to a table which I was very much in the practice of frequenting, and where no one was then engaged, I was invited by a stranger to play.
The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
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An American athlete swung the wheelchair to enter the bank dexterously , the counter has resembled the tea table highly, to her again appropriate.
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In robot hand systems, the force and torque should be well distributed and applied by the fingers in order to grasp and manipulate the object dexterously .
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And riding swiftly on horses and managing them 'dexterously' the princes began to hit marks with shafts engraved with their respective names.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
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THE extraordinary success of Homo sapiens is a result of four things: intelligence, language, an ability to manipulate objects dexterously in order to make tools, and co-operation.
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Nothing is done or said that doesn't feel coruscantly correct, dexterously blending private and public events, and making a one-person play convey so many lives, so much history, such an onrush of humanity.
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When Rowlandson returned in the afternoon he would find the shadows all dexterously transferred to the plate by means of the aquatint.
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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
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The present work not only bears an interesting subject, but the artist also dexterously evokes the childhood memories of the viewer.
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An American athlete swung the wheelchair to enter the bank dexterously , the counter has resembled the tea table highly, to her again appropriate.
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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
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Next to her, hands working dexterously on a customer's head, another woman is busily putting the finishing touches to a ‘straightback’ hairstyle.
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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
