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adjective

adroit

quick or skillful or adept in action or thought

In a sentence

Six example sentences with adroit, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her adroit crossover left two defenders leaning the wrong way before she reached the free throw line.

    Basketball

  • An adroit reply turned the hostile question into a joke, and the room stopped pressing the subject entirely.

    Politics

  • One adroit flick of the wrist sent the omelette over on itself without a single tear in the surface.

    Cooking

  • An adroit cross-examination led the witness to contradict her own timeline within five questions.

    Law

  • The pianist made an adroit recovery from a memory slip, improvising four bars that most of the audience never noticed.

    Music

  • An adroit trader moved the position into bonds an hour before the announcement, and the fund closed the day ahead.

    Finance

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