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How to use proficiency in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Proficiency means ability, skill, competence. Example: “To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.”

Examples of proficiency by meaning

nounAbility, skill, competence.

  • to attain (or to reach) proficiency
  • a test of proficiency in English
  • The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it.2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club

More sentences with proficiency

  • To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.From the entry attain
  • Proficiency in PowerPoint continues to be required for almost every office job.From the entry powerpoint
  • My attainment of proficiency in German was due to years upon years of study.From the entry attainment
  • Students cannot be textbooked and worksheeted into mastery, proficiency, brilliance, and commitment.2006, Keen J. Babbage, Extreme Students: Challenging All Students and Energizing Learning. From the entry worksheet
  • It took a year before she could stand on the board with any proficiency.1997 June 12, Jane Hulse, “Call of the Sea […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN…. From the entry hot dogger
  • This program recognizes members for reaching a level of demonstratability, while encouraging additional aerobatic proficiency.1978, Sport Aviation, page 16. From the entry demonstratability
  • Trainees will be required to gain proficiency in venipunctures, angiocaths and medicut in our laboratory.1970, Drug Intelligence & Clinical Pharmacy, page 184. From the entry angiocath
  • Radio Schools touch typing is taught at the same time code proficiency is advanced.1941, QST, volume 25, numbers 2–6, page 90. From the entry mill
  • Seventy percent of Latinxes’ ages 5 and older speak English proficiently, yet English proficiency varies across bilingual communities in the U.S.2020, Sheila Bridges-Bond, “A Bilingual Child Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)”, in Diane M. Scott, editor, Cases on…. From the entry Latinx
  • It all revolves around professional proficiency, sharing specific research traditions, the availability of money, publications in leading journals, honours received.2001, Einar H. Fredriksson, A Century of Science Publishing. From the entry peerdom
  • Well, there are certainly different ways to measure up, whether with proficiency on a sniper rifle or blind luck with an AK-47.2001 January 27 – February 2, Kevin Cheung, “Net Gamer”, in Icon (The Sydney Morning Herald), number 65, page 18. From the entry Counter-Striker
  • The support of language proficiency associated with the home and endogamous marriage is absent in the case of women who marry out.1994, Vasilikie Demos, Marcia Texler Segal, Ethnic Women: A Multiple Status Reality, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry marry out
  • To appease her, I gladly demanded less extensive attestations of her proficiency, and, lo and behold, by showing such considerateness, I gradually won her back.ante 1956, Robert Walser quoted in: George C. Avery, Inquiry and Testament: A Study of the Novels and Short Prose of Robert Walser (1968…. From the entry objectress
  • Surf casters pick the reel with care, as proficiency in making long casts over the surf depends to a great extent on smooth and reliable operation of the reel.1952 June, “ABC of surf fishing”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 97, number 6, page 159. From the entry surf caster

Meaning of proficiency

  1. noun Ability, skill, competence.

Full definition of proficiency

Questions about proficiency in a sentence

How do you use proficiency in a sentence?
Proficiency is used as a noun. For example: “To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.”
What is a short sentence with proficiency?
“a test of proficiency in English”
What does proficiency mean?
Proficiency means ability, skill, competence.

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