Example Sentences

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This is a film about how the mere structure of something can conjure intense admiration, and Kramer dextrously reflects that idea in every meticulous moment.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Bright and bubbly, her fingers dextrously scrolling down social media pages, 19-year-old Palak Kohli seems just like any other teenager.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2022

This weekend, sit down with his deeply reported, dextrously written, and surprisingly personal history of that foundational figure of American myth, the self-made man.

From Slate • May 12, 2017

Rutherford & Son, first staged in 1912, has become famous as a dextrously plotted attack on domestic tyranny.

From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2013

And looking at his watch, Mr. Linden laid the child—who had fallen asleep again—out of his arms among the pillows, arranging them softly and dextrously as if he were used to the business.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan