Example Sentences

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Whether the dexterousness of pediatric immunity explains why kids so often evade COVID’s effects isn’t settled science.

From Slate • Aug. 18, 2021

Like the best and most storied session bands, the Wrecking Crew never messed up the track; they were the gang to call when you required dexterousness, ease.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2019

Frantz says Meza’s work is significant not just for its dexterousness, but for what it reveals about how queer Chicano artists worked during that era.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2017

I soon learned to weave with such dexterousness that, by the time my second teeth arrived, I was known throughout the village as the basket child of Guatemala.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some gay, audacious vice, which wield with dexterousness, And make to shine, and shoot red lightnings Heavenward!

From Poems of Paul Verlaine by Brownell, Gertrude Hall