Sentence examples for My proficiency from inspiring English sources

I should say at this juncture that Kwame is a better musician now than I was at the height of my proficiency but, honestly, would you want your child to enter into a financially and emotionally insecure profession that, no matter what heights you scale, is based on rejection?

As an active Army reservist, I shoot regularly to maintain my proficiency in marksmanship.

As expected, my proficiency at lighting and maintaining a small fire on damp foliage even when given all the necessary tools to complete the task was dire.

With her fluency in cooking, and my proficiency in Arabic, we knew we would make a formidable cooking team in Fez.

And now, I'm using my past and my proficiency to raise awareness about a social issue that's still surrounded by so much negative stigma that many choose to turn a blind eye and shy away from it altogether.

(Alas, I took Latin in high school, and my proficiency in Mandarin Chinese can only be described as... mild. Fortunately for me, one of Houston's 145 languages is English, although it's not always intelligible to folks from other parts of the country).

But most important, both in class and during my work for my proficiencies, I learned how to be inquisitive, how to see both sides of an argument, how to question orthodoxies -- the skills needed to learn.

I don on my black identity just as I donned my Malcolm X t-shirt, just as I depend on my Sudanese networks to navigate foreign Muslim landscapes and just as I rely on my Arabic proficiency to earn free dinners and favors in Arab countries.

But given my newfound proficiency, even a batch or two of broken mayonnaise didn't bother me.

When I was younger I took my cycling proficiency test in a school playground, which really doesn't bear any resemblance to the conditions that you face on busy roads today.

I realized she was evaluating my language proficiency.