How to Use adroit in a Sentence

adroit

adjective

• She is adroit at handling problems.
• But the fire ants in Hu’s lab are also adroit escape artists.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Apr. 2014
• Mr. Evans has done it all—a paragon of adroit industry.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 17 May 2017
• But McConnell’s stewardship of the health care issue has proved less adroit.
  — Washington Post, 14 July 2017
• While smaller firms might be more adroit, the huge shifts that are about to happen will likely require the clout and reputation of the large firms.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• In the sitting room, the raw concrete wall offers an interesting backdrop for an adroit mix of the rough and refined.
  — Ian Phillips, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• Donovan Mitchell and Royce O’Neale are too thick and not really adroit enough to consistently do it.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
• His most adroit feat came after the failed Beer Hall Putsch, in 1923, which should have ended his political career.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• As usual chez Linklater, adroit touches and modest grace notes are scattered all about.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
• To get anything like this, Republicans will have to be stalwart and adroit, and the Trump White House will have to have a clear legislative strategy.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 Sep. 2017
• The bureau has long had a workaday, just-the-facts-please image – albeit an image polished by adroit internal PR.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2018
• The menu is ever-changing, but constant in its reverence for local seafood and the adroit preparation and plating.
  — Melissa Buote, Bon Appétit, 7 Nov. 2019
• Many pieces were passed through multiple sets of adroit hands in various parts of the world before reaching completion.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2018
• Kemp, an adroit politician, moved quickly to solidify his base of support and cut off Perdue’s.
  — The Editors, National Review, 26 May 2022
• But horror fiction is now less often written by mainstream writers than by specialists, of whom Stephen King is the most adroit.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• Silver’s been adroit at managing these fickle streams of funding.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 May 2021
• Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban may have been the most adroit at exploiting the health crisis.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2020
• Cellos were especially adroit in some tricky passage-work in the middle section.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
• Rosenstein came up with what appeared to be an adroit compromise to diffuse the situation.
  — Murray Waas, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
• That may partially explain why Biden’s adroit handling of the war in Ukraine has not prompted detectable movement in his approval rating.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 2 June 2022
• Jem Bartholomew’s adroit exposition of his subject, Frank Turnbridge, left a lasting effect on me.
  — Longreads, 27 Dec. 2022
• Part of his task is to make Senga and the audience fall for him, and Scott is impressively adroit in making that emotional connection.
  — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 12 Mar. 2018
• Like many small business owners in Venezuela, the David family had become adroit at averting disaster.
  — Joshua Goodman, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2018
• The adroit statesman accepts power and uses it prudently.
  — James Traub, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
• No such problems informed the adroit playing of continuo cellist Kenneth Olsen.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
• His political rise has been facilitated, in part, by an adroit ability to control the news cycle and bend it to his whims.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 Jan. 2017
• The performers’ adroit use of space directly transfers to a series of sketches utilizing words, sounds, movement, and pace to tell stories both goofy and rousing.
  — Chicago Reader, 16 Aug. 2017
• With Tapper, one has a very adroit early adopter of social media twinning with the impressive reach and social media savvy of his employer, CNN.
  — James Warren, The Hive, 5 Dec. 2017
• Brands is an adroit storyteller and captures both Brown’s intensity and zeal and Lincoln’s pragmatism and wit.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2020
• At the end of each of the small primate’s hands are six fingers, including a long and adroit middle finger that can swivel in any direction due to its ball-and-socket joint, like a human shoulder, writes Defector’s Sabrina Imbler.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024