Sentence examples for a particularly adept from inspiring English sources

He was, by all indications, not a particularly adept crook.

Isherwood is not a particularly adept or persuasive literary critic in his diaries, but his enthusiasms are vital.

When Curry is limited or absent, the Knicks become a jump-shooting team, and not a particularly adept one.

More specifically, how, when given chase by a particularly adept hunting dog, a hog would always end up backing into a hole in the bank of a creek.

It's not that I'm a particularly adept cook, I say, producing a panda-shaped shaker, I'm just unafraid to use a secret weapon and I'm ready to convert the skeptics.

Johann Jakob von Wunsch (1717 1788) was soldier of fortune and Prussian general of infantry, and a particularly adept commander of light infantry.

Invariably, what worked best on stage was material tailored for her particular persona, and since that was grounded in her experience as an African-American woman, I evolved into a writer particularly adept at stepping into that point of view.

The series (shown on Sunday nights) has a great asset in Michael C. Hall, an actor particularly adept at portraying repressives.

The ensemble, which Mr. Tabassian directs, includes his brother, Ziya Tabassian, a percussionist who is particularly adept on the Persian tombak, a goblet-shaped drum, and Pierre-Yves Martel, a viola da gamba player who splits his time between Montreal and Paris.

Not surprisingly, the most heated rivalries among the Patriot League schools are between the two front-runners, Navy and Lafayette, and between the two military academies, Army and Navy (a subject Mr. Feinstein is particularly adept at portraying, having written "A Civil War," a 1996 study of the football rivalry between the two schools).

We should be far more concerned by well-oiled federal programs vigorously defended by a Democratic administration than by bombastic election-season proclamations of a candidate who is particularly adept at tapping into the national mood.