Sample Sentences forsleight of hand (auto-selected)
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Then the trucker takes a single card and with sleight of hand makes the card vanish into thin air.† (source)
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Hazel passed a diamond between her fingers in a sleight of hand.† (source)
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In the setting of a bar, a sleight of hand will inevitably attract a curious onlooker or two.† (source)
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Cheap hocus-pocus, simple sleight of hand.† (source)
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Your idea depends a lot on sleight of hand.† (source)
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Now the truth seemed obvious: his last words had been just another sleight of hand, and his last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to rout out.† (source)
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Then, stooping, he jerked the boy to his shoulders with an ease that looked like sleight of hand.† (source)
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Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and countless subtleties, to which the veteran whaleman is so often forced, none exceed that fine manoeuvre with the lance called pitchpoling.† (source)
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Some verbal sleight of hand, but I am trying to deceive myself not anyone else.† (source)
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The horror movies were "sleights of hand in which the fears of the workingman have been displaced by those of pretty girls."† (source)
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I had been fascinated by the things he'd shown me, but they were all just sleight of hand, quarters pulled from children's ears.† (source)
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He was a lubricous charmer, an obsessive bestower of fetching trinkets and favors, and he performed for his patients, for Sophie, for anyone who would watch, clever little magic tricks and feats of sleight of hand.† (source)
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"Sleight of hand," said David, smiling.† (source)
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His sleight of hand could not make thin air of the pain if, opening her arms to him, she stabbed a knee into his nuts.† (source)
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An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!† (source)
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If magicians are the best at sleight of hand, then inmates have to be a close second.† (source)
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