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
  • Silver’s been adroit at managing these fickle streams of funding.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 May 2021
  • As usual chez Linklater, adroit touches and modest grace notes are scattered all about.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
  • But McConnell’s stewardship of the health care issue has proved less adroit.
    — Washington Post, 14 July 2017
  • Norway’s options are now abundant, and often adroit and inventive, too.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • Cellos were especially adroit in some tricky passage-work in the middle section.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rosenstein came up with what appeared to be an adroit compromise to diffuse the situation.
    — Murray Waas, Vox, 9 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • Zenon's solos proved comparably adroit, and there was no mistaking his signature translucence of sound.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2017
  • His reputation as an unusually eloquent and adroit musician has long been a matter of record.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • No such problems informed the adroit playing of continuo cellist Kenneth Olsen.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
  • The gravity of the moment does not mean being politically adroit is not important.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Her adroit performance is as well suited to the libretto’s subtleties as her voice is to the music’s thrashing intensity.
    — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Her camouflaging tactics are so adroit that the film’s denouement is both shocking and, somehow, deflating.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Like many small business owners in Venezuela, the David family had become adroit at averting disaster.
    — Joshua Goodman, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jem Bartholomew’s adroit exposition of his subject, Frank Turnbridge, left a lasting effect on me.
    — Longreads, 27 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Death, the thing underpinning the lawyers’ enormous paydays, is every bit as verbally adroit as Laura and Darla.
    — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 22 Jan. 2018
  • 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

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