(1) Her movements were deft and quick.

(2) With deft fingers she untangled the wire.

(3) He finished off the painting with a few deft strokes of the brush.

(4) With a deft flick of his foot, Mr Worth tripped one of the raiders up.

(5) In one, deft movement(Sentence dictionary), he had her hand locked behind her back.

(6) The pianist has deft fingers.

(7) He has a deft touch with tricky painting jobs.

(8) She answered the journalist's questions with a deft touch.

(9) He's very deft at handling awkward situations.

(10) He sketched her with quick, deft strokes.

(11) She is deft at dealing with reporters.

(12) The director employs sensuous, atmospheric camerawork and deft dramatic touches.

(13) It was going to take some deft political footwork to save the situation.

(14) It took a bit of deft footwork to get them to agree.

(15) All feature his full-bodied tone and deft improvisations.

(16) Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation.

(17) Nearly every piece here is deft, intelligent and imaginative.

(18) The songs demonstrate Costello's deft wordplay.

(19) Brown is deft at handling audience participation.

(20) Harvesting is a delicate task requiring deft fingers and precision, for which women are supposed by nature to be peculiarly suited.

(21) Usquebaugh Deft, practised, eager, Your fingers twist the metal cap.

(22) Was this not deft proof of how the human gene-pool was constantly deteriorating, how bad blood drove out good?

(23) A footman came and did something deft with a spoon and a plate and a linen napkin.

(24) Mahela's deft little cutters and seam-up varieties could bag a few back-up wickets too.

(25) There is no sureness of touch, no deft ability to square circles as and when required.

(26) Associates describe him as a deft manipulator of the media and of the young women he turns into pop superstars.

(27) So the snake makes its deft, rapid lunge and then immediately withdraws to await results.

(28) He played an early little sonata of Mozart's, which he magicked into a masterpiece with his deft touch.

(29) It s brash, fast, slickly arranged big-band music that hits the accents with deft conviction.

(30) Our sense of time within these television years is so deft that we can make all sorts of jokes from it.

(1) Her movements were deft and quick.

(2) He finished off the painting with a few deft strokes of the brush.

(3) With a deft flick of his foot, Mr Worth tripped one of the raiders up.

(4) In one, deft movement, he had her hand locked behind her back.

(5) The pianist has deft fingers.

(31) Its minimal size can work against it with the buttons requiring a deft touch.

(32) Our offer of riches beyond dreams still stands for those deft with pen and sharp of wit.

(33) By a simple trick of the intelligence, a deft little twist of naming, he felt incomparably lighter and freer.

(34) I could trace its movements, the deep strokes, the fine, deft lines.

(35) Kwasniewski, a deft politician, insists his policy is still to seek entry into the alliance.

(36) His work on Phylloxera is mimicked by deft strokes, as are his studies of chicken cholera.

(37) Wallace battled well till the end, but Deane looked unsettled and uninvolved, apart from a few deft touches back in defence.

(38) Violet McBride, who is probably playing her last season for Portadown, displayed some deft touches.

(39) They are, as comics used to be, physically dextrous and deft.

(40) Dreamy, deft and economical, it was born to prowl the airwaves.

(41) Revealing his conclusion would spoil the fun because Hitt tells his story with a deft touch and a sharp wit.

(42) Alert, she stalked the jackrabbit, her stiletto poised for a deft jab.

(43) Taught by Fenna's crafty and ancient wisdom she had learned well the deft turns of deceit.

(44) A few deft strokes with a metal bar and Toby was free!

(45) President Bush is being widely praised for his deft handling of the hostage crisis.

(46) Combining powerful smashes with deft drop-shots, Hall beat Steve Baddeley 15-18, 15-4, 15-4 in a 66-minute final.

(47) Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness, he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness.

(48) He met them all blandly, becoming deft in excuse.

(49) Free from clumsiness; deft; adroit.

(50) Too deep for any deft divining rod.

(51) He is a very deft novelist too, with a superb ear for dialogue.

(52) Socialists styled themselves as liberals and then spoke glowingly of democracy, executing a deft bait and switch to supplant liberty with majoritarianism.

(53) The timber of the kitchen and metal bring grand sense, of glass connect fully oozy and deft.

(54) The actual chrestomathy of each life castaway, so deft that can pull pull, thin resemble a book thinly, let you place in a certain position arbitrarily in the aperture in a certain space.

(55) The steel tube that was full of contemporary power move and deft and transparent glass hand in photograph reflect, from inside brunet woodiness step oozy and cool and lightsome.

(56) Some practice in the deft use of words may well be ancillaryto the study of natural science.

(57) Furthermore, precipitate of Nb in deformed austenite is more helpful for DEFT.

(58) This bird, sharp of eye and deft of beak, can accurately peck the flying insects in the air.

(59) A distinctive effect or deft touch, as in literary composition.

(60) The vitreous armrest stair of concise vogue, from deft and clean in oozy and contemporary succinct.

(61) He was a good workman himself, quick and deft, and it had always been a point of pride with him that no man should do any of his work for him or outwork him.

(62) In a deft and tough-minded performance, Vitali Churkin, 34, second secretary of the Washington embassy, offered little new information butacknowledged that the crisis was not yet over.

(63) Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.

(64) Moreover, Japanese have a high opinion of the physiological benefits of using chopsticks. They believe that using chopsticks leads to a clever mind and deft hands.

(65) Zhou, as always, was electric , quick , taut , deft, humorous.

(66) "I think maybe I wasn't sexy enough," the still sensuous Horne told Carson, with a sarcasm so deft, it could pass for airy banter.

(67) As such, she proved herself a deft crafter of tactics and negotiation aimed to contain or reduce the threat posed by America's enemies.