competent

In a sentence

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

• The clinic hired a competent nurse who could place a difficult line on the first attempt, every single time.

  Medicine

• He is a competent bassist who never misses a change, though the band still wants someone with more fire.

  Music

• Our guide was competent in four languages and handled the border paperwork while the rest of us napped.

  Travel

• The backup point guard is competent rather than brilliant, handling the ball safely and never forcing a pass.

  Basketball

• A competent line cook can plate forty dinners an hour without a single ticket coming back to the kitchen.

  Cooking

• Investors wanted a competent finance lead on the team before they would wire the second round.

  Startups

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains competent. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• edit
• factor
• anticipated
• exceed
• component
• pronounced
• novice
• abdominal
• restricting
• convert
• conducting
• highlighting