How to Use dexterity in a Sentence

dexterity

noun

• He has the dexterity needed to deal cards quickly.
• The amazing dexterity of the acrobat.
• He's a teacher known for his imagination and verbal dexterity.
• The job requires manual dexterity.
• Their thermal profile is not impressive, but their dexterity is.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2020
• Or balance the spike on the string like a tightrope, seeming to defy the laws of gravity and limits of human dexterity.
  — Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020
• Use your mental dexterity and your keen sense of balance to keep everything in order -- this applies to your relationships as well.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2020
• Engineers have long sought to create robotic hands with similar dexterity, and many of their designs are truly remarkable.
  — Jonathan Adolph, Popular Science, 24 Nov. 2020
• Few scholars would have the bravado, or the imaginative dexterity, for such supposings, and it’s a thrill to see a living poet treat a dead one not as a monument but as a partner in crime.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• Specifically, people were found to be more precise and make fewer mistakes on cognitive and dexterity tasks after viewing pictures of puppies and kittens.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2020
• That’s a convenient option, but ambidextrous gloves sometimes lack the manual dexterity of hand-specific models.
  — Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
• Women, the ones who gave each Supreme Court Justice on the bench the right to be here, the dexterity of their pen hand.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2022
• One was a mix of grace, speed and dexterity; the other was a display of pure brawn.
  — Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2022
• But for the most power and dexterity, consider the pinch grip (a.k.a. the blade grip).
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 12 Nov. 2020
• This is the first time his late-game dexterity has mattered this much.
  — Tim Brown, OregonLive.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Despite advances, robots simply don’t have the flexibility and dexterity of human workers.
  — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
• In any event, Melvin said the goal is just to make sure the pitchers can bunt with some dexterity; anything else is a bonus.
  — John Hickey, The Mercury News, 7 June 2017
• In this class, the focus will be on improving strength and dexterity of the hands.
  — Courant Community, 9 Jan. 2018
• Admire the dexterity, the width and the active, spread little toes.
  — Fiona Ward, Glamour, 9 Aug. 2022
• This species boasts noteable dexterity and uses stone tools to crack open nuts in the wild.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• There should be enough soup to warrant the name, and a certain degree of dexterity involved in the pleating to ensure the skins don’t break.
  — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2022
• At times in last year’s campaign, though, Lula seemed to have lost his easy dexterity.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• Players sidestep such questions with a dexterity employed to avoid a hip check along the boards.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2022
• Ed’s vocal dexterity here and on a few other spots on the album is just stunning.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2024
• To test comfort and hand dexterity, our testers were asked to wear the gloves along with their ski jackets and try to zip the jacket, put on and fasten their ski boots, and hold ski poles.
  — Taylor Fox, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2023
• The fishermen tied knots with a magical dexterity and could read the sky.
  — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2020
• Life often isn’t pretty, and among the artist’s jobs is to reflect this fact, and maybe relate it with verbal dexterity over a hard beat.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
• The student lacks the dexterity to inflict such an injury on herself, the suit alleges.
  — Paul Egan, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• Getting out doesn’t just require thumb-shredding dexterity, wit, and guile, but also — fittingly for its premise — patience.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• Schurmann, in tandem with his talented crafts team, showcases plenty of visual dexterity — a delightful discovery since family-friendly films of this ilk so often talk down to their audience.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024