Sample Sentences fordexterity (editor-reviewed)
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The study found that video games improve hand dexterity and mental spatial ability.dexterity = adroitness (skill) -- physical and/or mental
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But what sort of trap have they laid that requires such dexterity? (source)dexterity = nimbleness (skill in moving)
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Mary didn't realize until months later that he'd been studying her hands, checking their dexterity and strength to see how they'd stand up to hours of delicate cutting, scraping, tweezing, and pipetting. (source)
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Once inside, Mack methodically shed the layers of outerwear as best he could, his half-frozen fingers responding with about as much dexterity as oversized clubs at the ends of his arms. (source)dexterity = adroitness (skill)
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He dexterously pulled his feet out of the valenki, (source)dexterously = adroitly (skillfully)
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All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks, (source)dexterous = physically adroit (skillful in movements)
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I mean it takes a good bit of dexterity to pull a thread out of the fabric all in one piece.† (source)
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He was famed for great knowledge and skill in horsemanship, being as dexterous on horseback as a Tartar. (source)dexterous = skillful
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"Nothing in the world," was the reply; and, replacing the paper, I saw him dexterously tear a narrow slip from the margin.† (source)
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I think of JUPITER scrolled on the sand in his angular script, by his extra, dextrous finger.† (source)
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An instant afterwards he hastily drew back his head, saying, "I thought so!" and sliding from the shoulders of Dantes as dextrously as he had ascended, he nimbly leaped from the table to the ground.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled dexterously.
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All this academic art is far worse than the trade in sham antique furniture; for the man who sells me an oaken chest which he swears was made in the XIII century, though as a matter of fact he made it himself only yesterday, at least does not pretend that there are any modern ideas in it, whereas your academic copier of fossils offers them to you as the latest outpouring of the human spirit, and, worst of all, kidnaps young people as pupils and persuades them that his limitations are rules, his observances dexterities, his timidities good taste, and his emptinesses purities.† (source)
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Now he moved the brush to his left and worked with equal dexterity.† (source)
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Nathan proved himself dexterous at doing Will's routine changes under cover of a blanket.† (source)
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For an hour the board shuffled figures dexterously.† (source)
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In the last analysis, however, it was not Jefferson or the "dextrous" Burr who defeated Adams so much as the Federalist war faction and the rampaging Hamilton.† (source)
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