Example Sentences

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After Mr. Lapid dexterously built a coalition that blocked Mr. Netanyahu from office last year, Ms. Israel wanted to give him another chance.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022

These are narratives she dexterously braids with William Faulkner’s “The Golden Land,” which, if not Faulkner’s best work, paints a cautionary picture of youthful libertinage in sunny Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2021

Petitjean dexterously shifts from tracing Kahlo’s artistic and biographical trajectory to tracking his father’s progression from an associate at the Ethnographic Museum to a gallery assistant at Galerie Renou et Colle, where Kahlo exhibits.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2020

But Bortolameolli “kept his cool, delivering works by Saint-Saens and Dvorak while also dexterously navigating the audience's unfettered impulse for applauding between movements and sometimes kicking wine bottles down the stairs.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2018

The occasional stones which were being thrown at her by the Old Ones she dexterously caught and swallowed, in the maddening way which chickens have when you are trying to drive them off.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White