Use "deft" in a sentence

1. The medic finds a vein and despite the distraction of rapid motion caused by hanging drip lines he is deft and assured as he inserts a catheter into her forearm, hooks up a bag of saline and begins to administer four hundred micrograms of naloxone through the intravenous connection that is keeping Bex in touch with the physical world around her

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2. Their deft hands could not be replaced for producing the highest quality wrappings and attention to consistent quality

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3. One of these was a certain magistrate who by deft manipulation, had left the bench, saucepans, and a fawning sergeant far behind

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4. Then, after a deft kick to his ankle, the ‘god’ was tripping over his own feet

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5. “Indeed? How I could have used your deft ear as I struggled against Troy… Never

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6. Danny, using a deft combination of wheelchair movements and yanks of his neck and mouth gathered his wallet from under the pillow and began trundling toward the lift in his electric wheelchair

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7. He released the magnetic door catch by a deft flick of his chair and prepared to enter the realm of the Sapient Ones

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8. Fortunately, I had the deft touch

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9. It was an enormously deft and subtle manipulation, designed to appeal to both war hawks and doves

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10. Then his hand was at the button of my pants, and in two deft movements, they were loose

11. He shifted to lift up my hips, then hooked his thumbs down to slide against my skin and pull pants and panties off in one deft motion

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12. His surprise alerted his reflexes and with a sudden and deft move he was on his feet, his head turning in all directions, trying to establish some sort of enemy direction to no avail

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13. I was mesmerized by them in their effortless choreography of deft movement around the leather steering wheel as they kept the car perfectly aligned and under control

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14. Hands made for fine, deft movements

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15. So her deft fingers tuck pieces of my hair into one braid that tickles the middle of my spine

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16. He wipes the screen with his sleeve and navigates with deft fingers to our mother’s first journal entry

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17. moment of silence followed his deft attempt to launch a new subject

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18. Petunia decided to take action and with a deft click of the

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19. With a deft click, Hobbs had managed to prize up the lever, smashed the steering lock and began working the electrics

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20. ” the dark girl laughed as she playfully tossed Reen into her armchair with a deft twist, then curled up in his lap

21. Titus managed to evade the shield bash that followed, with a deft sideways roll retrieving Tress’s fallen sabre as he did so

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22. With deft strokes the bull was slaughtered and placed on the altar

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23. With one deft talon the roc grabbed at the fisherman’s head

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24. Satin slippers were put upon her slender feet, and a few deft touches of Vateesa's pink fingers arranged her dark wavy tresses

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25. In a chamber of the palace Tarascus writhed and cursed on a blood-spattered couch, under the deft, quick fingers of Orastes

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26. A few deft taps on the console sent power to the motors, but within seconds the straining sound and shuddering, followed by instant shut down, confirmed their worst fears

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27. The knife was sharp and her stroke deft

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28. With a few deft lines from his pen he produced a grid of nine windows

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29. All of Ben's feints, thrusts, and parries were deft and accurate

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30. They are deft at processing, whether this be people or problems, and they are willing to take on more than their fair share of responsibility, which on the negative side can lead them to deliberately multiply their burdens and then feel put upon; or to push into areas where their counsel is neither needed nor appreciated

31. With deft cuts, he sliced open the belly of the animal and quickly slit away the pelt

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32. His eyes ran up and down her exposed body and then his hands moved lower to her belt, carefully undoing the buckle, then snapping the belt out in one deft powerful movement, the tip just lightly stinging her wrist as it came out, adding to her growing excitement

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33. coated the ground in a deft white wrapping

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34. Ivar raised his sword and, with one deft move, decapitated Finn

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35. In a few deft movements she had rearranged the string into a presentable form

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36. " Geniuses in this civilization are devious, deft

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37. The movements of her fingers were deft and precise but languid, exuding raw sensuality

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38. Really I am rather a deft person, used to jugs, and not, as a rule, of hasty or unconsidered movements

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39. The landlord, deft and noiseless, was giving a finishing touch of roses and fruit and candles to the supper table

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40. A week later they were married; and the Bishop, inscrutably watching Ingeborg from the doorstep as she was being tucked by deft hands into the rugs of the car that was to take her to the station, observing how cushions were put in the right places at her back, how a footstool was carefully inserted under her feet, how her least movement was interpreted and instantly attended to, made his farewell remark to his daughter--the last remark, as it happened, that he ever did make to her

41. Tussie thought of this each time he sat at his own meals, surrounded by deft menials, lapped as he told himself in luxury,--oh, thought Tussie writhing, it was base

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42. He then picked up the scalpel off the tray and in a single deft movement severed the toe

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43. They had a salad that George mixed at the table with a deft skill

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44. At first glance, this trainee represented all the physical traits that formed one of the great Thorns, who killed seemingly limitless numbers of enemies with deft strokes of their swords and an air of well-earned self-confidence

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45. With a deft lunge, the Bergsbor’s foot shot out towards Liam’s injured shoulder, but the Thorn had sensed the move and rolled away to his right

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46. bunch of eating bananas, then with a deft movement he tied

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47. The gaffer of the masons laid his bricks with a deft rhythm that soothed the soul and Rafferty felt sorely in need of such balm

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48. meal up like any deft cook at home in a Cook-house

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49. Try always to do as much as possible with one stroke of the brush; paint has a vitality when the touches are deft, that much handling and continual touching kills

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50. In cases where the correction of intricate modelling is desired and where it would be very difficult to alter a part accurately by a deft stroke of the brush, this method is useful to employ

51. break the sandy surface, down goes a hand and with deft forefinger and thumb, pinches the

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52. the Indian musicians, insinuating that with each deft movement that it might strike

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53. she was headed as her sails snatched at the wind with deft fingers

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54. With a deft kick he sends it spinning to his crown and jauntyhatted skates in

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55. An incredibly quiet, deft Washington miracle, with the power to improve, or in some cases save, millions of American lives

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56. Neat and deft and dexterous were adjectives that had never applied

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57. With her little deft hands she opened and shut her little red bag, took out a cushion, laid it on her knees, and carefully wrapping up her feet, settled herself comfortably

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58. And meanwhile, there at the foot of the bed, in the deft hands of Lizaveta Petrovna, like a flickering light in a lamp, lay

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59. I ignore his facial expression and very bravely sit down beside him on the piano stool, placing my head on his bare shoulder to watch his deft, agile fingers caress the keys

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60. Mr Samgrass's deft editorship had assembled and arranged a curiously homogeneous little body of writing - poetry, letters, scraps of a journal, an unpublished essay or two, which all exhaled the same high-spirited, serious, chivalrous, otherworldly air and the letters from their contemporaries, written after their deaths, all in varying degrees of articulateness, told the same tale of men who were, in all the full flood of academic and athletic success, of popularity and the promise of great rewards ahead, seen somehow as set apart from their fellows, garlanded victims, devoted to the sacrifice

61. Charlie wasn’t deft enough to avoid bringing a whole mortifying mound of soda bottles and newspapers and Styrofoam takeout containers crashing down around his Hush Puppies, but Sam just laughed again, and it wasn’t the kind of laughter that subtracted anything; it was a warm breeze lifting him up

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62. ” It was a deft change of subject, but Mercer was too riveted to try to steer things back to the drugs

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63. deft in their movements

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64. He remembers a girl with pale blonde curls and deft hands

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65. I lookt at the Portraits—Portraits of pale Elizabethan Ladies by William Larkin and Nicholas Hilliard, Portraits of Elegant Courtiers by Sir Anthony Van Dyck and Sir Peter Lely, Portraits of Great Ladies and Immortal Wits by Sir Godfrey Kneller—but lo! those familiar painted Faces which I had studied and Day-dreamt o’er so oft’ in my Youth were suddenly changed! I dreamt I saw Lord Bellars’ own Face in one, and the Face of Isobel the Good Witch in another, and Lancelot himself, as if painted by Kneller’s deft Brush, in still another—and then (could it be?) my own familiar Face staring down at me from a massive gilded Frame (as if I were—O strange to say!—my own Ancestor)

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66. If I can turn the Head by deft Massage, then truly I can spare both Mother and Child

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67. My small Size was some Advantage, as was the Swaying of the Ship—now somewhat diminish’d, as if the Squall were passing—but there was no Question that in an open Field he should cut me down in one deft Stroke, the Point of his Rapier seeking my Heart as ’twere some Homing Pigeon and my Heart its Coop

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68. In this way, having carefully removed the leg bands by deft circular motions of his arm following one another uninterruptedly, the man hung the leg bands up on some pegs fixed above his head

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69. The latter was conscious of something pleasant, comforting, and well rounded in these deft movements, in the man’s well-ordered arrangements in his corner, and even in his very smell, and he looked at the man without taking his eyes from him

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70. How easy, right at birth, to be so close to the mother that a few deft manœuvres might cause peritonitis!'

71. The second lady began to pick away at the thread with her little deft scissors flashing

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72. The deft Count Jaume had not specified what kind of bouquet

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73. How easy, right at birth, to be so close to the mother that a few deft maneuvers might cause peritonitis!’

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74. “But don’t neglect the deft way you murdered those poor, inconvenient bastards you pretended to conspire with

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75. URIEL: That was a deft job you did, managing the story of your Emergence

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76. How easy, right at birth, to be so close to the mother that a few deft maneuvers might cause peritonitis!"

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77. Florentino Ariza tried to help her unfasten her stays, but she anticipated him with a deft maneuver, for in five years of matrimonial devotion she learned to depend on herself in all phases of love, even the preliminary stages, with no help from anyone

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78. His hands, cracked from gasoline and oil, were curiously delicate and his fingers were deft

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79. ” His deft hands cleansed the wound with a probe, applied a dressing and taped it on

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80. She was heavy but she moved with light, deft steps

81. Phil's fingers were deft, and the result was a dress which was the envy of every Redmond girl

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82. The Vladimir woman, with her baby in her arms, and the watchman’s wife, with the stocking she was knitting with deft fingers, came up to Maslova

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83. She sat beside the lamp, with her sleeves rolled up, wiping cups and mugs, and placing them, with her deft, red and sunburnt hands, on a cloth that was spread on the bedstead

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84. The latter was conscious of something pleasant, comforting, and well-rounded in these deft movements, in the man’s well-ordered arrangements in his corner, and even in his very smell, and he looked at the man without taking his eyes from him

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85. Her maid, a deft Viennese, who had remained with this accommodating mistress for five years, quieted her by telling her that the master was better, that he was still asleep, not having slept for the greater part of the night

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86. He then took out his point, and with a deft touch injected the virus, while Dick looked on, smoking an Egyptian cigarette

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87. He charmed her by his deferential escort across the platform; he protected the rustling silk of her skirt from any possible fleck of dirt as she mounted to her place; he was solicitous, as a gentleman should be, concerning the dust cloth, and deft as a footman in arranging it

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