How To Use sleight In A Sentence
- If you've been to the crossroads, and made the deal, and got the mojo — which turns out to be dependent on a great deal of hard work and practice, just like sleight-of-hand — wouldn't you maybe get a trifle riled by that kind of misjudgment from time to time? Cops and Robbers
- The company accounts show a little financial sleight of hand.
- It's almost a kind of compositional sleight-of-hand, as Sting uses catchy melodies and pop-savvy arrangements to distract our attention away from just how crafty these songs are. Ten Summoner's Tales
- And who maketh any doubt, that if those sleights and trickes, whereof this dayes argument may give us occasion to speake, should afterwardes be put in execution by men: would it not minister just reason, of punishing themselves for beguiling you, knowing, that (if you please) you have the like abilitie in your owne power? The Decameron
- My issue is not so much with my company, but with the government's sleight of hand over this. Times, Sunday Times
- There is every chance that he performed a little sleight of hand and other conjuring.
- 'And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair of face, ill in temper and fickle of mood, is called the backbiter of the Asa, and speaker of evil redes and shame of all gods and men; he has above all that craft called sleight, and cheats all in all things. The Story of the Volsungs
- Everybody enjoys watching him play, he's so sleight of foot. The Sun
- He freely admitted that magic depended on deception and sleight of hand but said: ‘Origami is real magic!’
- The seemingly slipshod construction and use of everyday materials belies the structural sleight-of-hand employed, and it is a startling, playful introduction to the exhibition.