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How to use dexterous in a sentence

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He is a shadow of the player who scored that wonderfully dexterous try in the monsoon against Argentina 15 months ago.
To build with any efficiency and skill, the colonial craftsperson needed a dexterous hand when wielding both kinds of axes.
The patient should be mentally alert, manually dexterous, and have sterile urine.
The captives on the rock were at last rescued by the islanders, who are the most dexterous cragsmen in those parts.
Occasional slow-motion replays highlight particularly dexterous handling of cooking pans or ingredients, for example.
Clearly Sermon's work does not include a dexterous robotic arm, a standard device of telerobotics.
A sense of fear and threat of the unknown are conjured up with a dexterous use of language and word play.
They use their sensitive, dexterous forepaws to locate prey, such as worms, in mud.
The door to his trailer opened suddenly to admit a dexterous middle-aged woman.
Where his dexterous playing and effortless meter manipulation often buoyed the band's corybantic compositions, here, he's sadly mollified.
After dexterous moves with the coffee machine, pots and cups, the Espresso is ready for tasting and then on to the other brews.
He was not only a very dexterous thief, but was notorious for his boldness and hardihood, and for the number of his previous convictions.
With dexterous fingers, and uncanny two-facedness, he had secured my vote.
He has proven himself a prodigious master of the qanun, an 81-string Arabic zither, his dexterous plucking unlocking the instrument's potential to scintillate and shine.
In all her camera-ready conversations, it is her dexterous intelligence that keeps it all carefully balanced.
But with a quick, dexterous motion, Rosekiller hurled the knife at Ariana.
The Devas of Vibration ensure influx of life force and also a dexterous functioning of the five senses, sensations and the mind.
You'll need good eye and dexterous fingers, as you race to create as many wacky structures as you can in the time allowed, But watch out!
When digging and cutting deep into your own skin, you want to use the most dexterous and sensitive finger you can.
Thanks to smarter and more dexterous robots, some lights-out manufacturing is now possible.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There he lies now, in that last quiet house of correction for such mistempered spirits, almost forgotten, even by old printsellers, but as dexterous and graceful engraver.
She was inimitably dexterous and indefatigable in improving every occasion of innuendo.
He was dexterous in delineating character, was rapid in execution, had a respectable appreciation of colour.
Trenton could not but admire the knowledge of these two men and their dexterous use of it.
A dexterous carver, would help half a dozen people in less time than is often wasted in making civil faces to a single guest.
To depend on his horse's speed, and his own dexterous hand to guide him, was all his hope.
He was far stronger than Mr. Dootleby, but not nearly so quick and dexterous.
How dexterous are the hands of the shoplifter, but to what a wretched course have they been trained!
A dexterous dab or two of that would have put an end to all his glory.
He was famed for great knowledge and skill in horsemanship, being as dexterous on horseback as a Tartar.
In the evening she went to the piano, choosing new music of the dexterous, tuneless, florid kind.
The general reined strongly at his charger's opened and foamy mouth and guided it with dexterous horsemanship past the man.
Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated, the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful leash.
The creature fell stunned, and the force of its fall brought it within the reach of dexterous hunter's grasp.
All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks, to judge by their wells, must be.
Her dexterous hands twisted her hair back into loose coils on her head.
He examined the bullets with which Monte Cristo performed this dexterous feat, and saw that they were no larger than buckshot.
With light and graceful steps he danced through the long saloon, with the sovereign who thought never to have found a more dexterous and excellent dancer.
Six foot three in height, active as a squirrel, dexterous with his fingers, finally, remarkably quick-witted, for this whole ingenious story is of his concoction.
This is a dexterous little cosmopolitan guttersnipe who can do scores of things, not only shoot, but draw and paint, and probably play the fiddle.
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