How to use adept in a sentence

Examples of adept by meaning

More sentences with adept

• John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.From the entry prick
• As a politician, he was very adept at speaking mendaciously in public.From the entry mendaciously
• Jim is very adept at summarization.From the entry summarization
• He was very adept at quarterstaff.From the entry quarterstaff
• I'm quite adept at closing bedroom deals within the space of one night, Phoenix .2020, Michelle Love, Billionaire Games. From the entry bedroom deal
• Although we are adept at asking questions, we are not always so good at hearing answers.2006, Andrew Nugent, The Slow-release Miracle: A Spirituality for a Lifetime, page 4. From the entry fielder
• “And because of these facets of the craft, partial adepts can also sometimes be herbmistresses or herbmasters.”2006, Robert Newcomb, Savage Messiah, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry herbmaster
• The first group were adepts of de Repentigny, the art critic.1998, Fulvio Caccia, Interviews with the Phoenix, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry plastician
• At quiet hour in the afternoon they were adepts of the olisbos, baubon, and finger.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry baubon
• The sky, he explained pompously, was a great mystery that only an adept might communicate to another.1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling. From the entry pompously
• For example, some doctors have a reputation for being particularly adept at working on unconscious people.1950, Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, number 15, page 39. From the entry doctoring
• The thing that the adepts seemed to enjoy most was the drink of Petro.1938, Zora Hurston, Tell My Horse. From the entry cannelle
• Camara was the Paok equivalent of Bruno Fernandes: a playmaker adept at materialising in pockets and running his team.2024 November 7, Jamie Jackson, “Amad Diallo ends Manchester United’s European drought by seeing off Paok”, in The Guardian. From the entry materialise
• There are many ways to kill off projects, and the Department for Transport is proving particularly adept at finding new ones.2019 November 20, Christian Wolmar, “DfT places fresh hurdles in the path of Heathrow link”, in Rail, page 52. From the entry kill off
• The nervous system, once so adept at compensation, begins to miscompensate, exacerbating the overall dysfunction of the system.2017, Christopher A. Shaw, Neural Dynamics of Neurological Disease, page 11. From the entry miscompensate
• The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects.2008, R. D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett, Lizard Care from A to Z: From Anoles to Zonosaurs, page 146. From the entry teiid
• Red-eyes have large and well-developed toepads and are adept at both leaping and walking through their elevated homes.2006, R[ichard] D. Bartlett, The 25 Best Reptile and Amphibian Pets, Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron’s Educational Series, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry red-eye
• According to Atiyars Malakkari is an adept bowswoman.2003, Malayalam Literary Survey, page 15. From the entry bowswoman
• And you, imagining them weightless and adept, overcame their lonely gravity and gave them sixty minutesful of grace.2000, Sue Nevill, All You Expect of the Road, page 70. From the entry minuteful
• HIEROMANCY: Divination through various forms of sacrifice, or preparation for such, especially when performed by adepts in accordance with accepted rituals.1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published…. From the entry hieromancy
• The transmutation of metals was secondary to the main aim, which was the spiritual transformation of the adept.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 261. From the entry transmutation
• Ursula was amazed and indignant at the way he made small-talk; he was adept as any fat in Christendom.1921, DH Lawrence, Women in Love, Vintage, published 2008, page 288. From the entry fat
• The Vote Leavers were adept at studs-up political campaigning, the City Hall people from Johnson's time as mayor of London were hard-wired for governing.2024 November 21, Tim Shipman, Out: How Brexit Got Done and the Tories Were Undone, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN. From the entry studs up
• Luke is an occasional Noisey writer, and is very adept at wandering into the dark rooms of the internet and causing trouble in them.2019 January 25, Dan Ozzi, “The Whole Weezer/"Africa" Thing Was My Fault and I'm So Sorry”, in VICE, archived from the original on 09 May…. From the entry I'll bite
• On trips to the country estate in Kent, south of London, Pelham was adept at preventing dragsmen from cutting the luggage from the carriage.2015, A.E. Wasserman, 1884 No Boundaries, →ISBN. From the entry dragsman
• Actually, he became very adept at negotiating his way around the doofer and even had to teach his grandfather how it worked.2014, Tom Gordon, “December 12 – Simplicity”, in Look Well to This Day: A Year of Daily Reflections, Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications…. From the entry doofer
• Unlike Persian historiography in Asia Minor, Persian authors in Īrān were very adept at creating universal histories, which often contain important news about Asia Minor.2014, Dimitri Korobeinikov, “The Sources”, in Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry Īrān
• The goal for any media company is to be a maven—and therefore highly adept at using multiple channels of social media communication well.2010, Rachel Davis Mersey, “Paying for It All”, in Can Journalism Be Saved?: Rediscovering America’s Appetite for News, Santa Barbara…. From the entry maven
• At the beginning of the twenty-first century the physically adept aggro femme had become a recurring motif in new circus and physical theatre.2005, Peta Tait, Circus Bodies: cultural identity in aerial performance, page 131. From the entry aggro
• The resources channelled to those institutions which showed themselves most adept at formfilling, self-promotion and presentation were inadequate to sustain the quality they claimed.1997, Eric J Evans, Thatcher and Thatcherism. From the entry channel
• They learned that survival in the New World required men and women to be adept at many skills: jacks-and-jills-of-all-trades, albeit masters and mistresses of none.1997, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, “The Land, the Natives, and the Settlers”, in A Social History of American Technology, New York, N.Y.; Oxford…. From the entry Jill of all trades, mistress of none
• Nay, he was quite an adept, and was very effective as a change bowler, for in no time he demolished the castle of any batsman.1966, Gurdeep Singh, Cricket in Northern India, page 59. From the entry castle
• The two and three-year-olds, who come at nine o’clock, arrive be-leggined and be-muffled, and the teachers have become adept at manipulating zippers.1932 March 13, “Youngsters Like to Learn Under New School Methods. Five-Year-Olds Start Music, Babies Begin French at Flatbush Montessori…. From the entry be-leggined
• All at once something rose through the vacancy, the frightening void that was like the dead leg some kids had been adept at giving in the playground.2011, Roger Garfitt, Horseman's Word: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 306. From the entry dead leg
• Episodes of Pushing Daisies, Sarah Connor Chronicles, and True Blood, which might appeal to young, affluent, and technically adept torrenters, have been leaked to the network to arouse buzz.2011, Elizabeth Evans, Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life. From the entry torrenter
• Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth — fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects.2009 January 6, Jeff Israely, “Rome Eyes Russian Orthodox Church Vote”, in Time. From the entry cut from the same cloth
• I play low limit hold'em, have become adept at reading most of the players and get frustrated when they hold 7-2 offsuit and beat me on the river.1998 October 4, cnote, “Re: No Limit Hold'em”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), message-ID <3617F4CD.735@ionet.net> <3617FB80.2A00@idt.net>. From the entry Cadillac of poker
• Woman, when not an adept of the Higher Beauty Culture, has now little to do beyond washing, stepping into a garment or two, and walking downstairs.1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon. From the entry whirligig of time
• Peter had been an adept with tilts, as old Stein had said so often that morning, while he, Palmer, and Gus, had dubiously laboured at this elusive task.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry primitively

Meaning of adept

1. adjective Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
2. noun One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient.

Full definition of adept

More about adept

• Meaning of adept
• Adept in Hindi
• Adept in Tamil
• Adept in Marathi
• Adept in Urdu

Questions about adept in a sentence

How do you use adept in a sentence?

Adept is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.”

What is a short sentence with adept?

“adepts in philosophy”

What does adept mean?

Adept means well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.