well-trained
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Well trained beekeepers are better equipped to deal with the adverse conditions we have seen this year.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2012
Well trained and armed by North Viet Nam, the Pathet Lao usually travel in bands of five or six and try to avoid combat.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Well trained in both conventional and guerrilla warfare, the Chinese foot soldier is amply armed with Chinese-made automatic weapons�usually a stamped copy of the Russian World War II vent-barreled burp gun.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Go, take ten thousand660 of our race Well trained in lore of time and place, And search the eastern region; through Groves, woods, and hills thy way pursue.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Well trained was he to dive beneath the main And search the waters with unfailing eye; And should an anchor 'gainst the straining rope Too firmly bite the sands, to wrench it free.
From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan
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