Sentence examples for a perfectly competent from inspiring English sources

The United States has a perfectly competent civil service.

Henry Nguyen likely is a clever fellow and a perfectly competent, perhaps even spectacular, businessman.

But Mr. Huggins, by all evidence a perfectly competent choreographer, is not that someone.

Within 31 minutes, Celtic had two goals to celebrate despite Rangers starting in a perfectly competent manner.

Brown has a perfectly competent voice, easy on the ear and agile enough to straddle R&B, dance and pop.

Solomon is a perfectly competent writer, despite the occasional lapse into cliché ("surreal desolation"; "the red orb of the sun").

Last weekend, your correspondent saw a harbinger of things to come a perfectly competent Android tablet with a seven-inch screen selling at a local electronics chain for $139.

"Billy struck me as a rather laid-back but perfectly competent young man," said Mr. Richmond, now 86.

The arrangements, by Harvey Brough, Patrick Hawes, Paul Mealor and Mike Sheppard are perfectly competent in an easy listening sort of way, and so are the performances – Amy Dickson is the saxophonist, Nicolas Fleury the horn player.

I'd seen my mother-in-law gut a live fish, and my wife and her sister were both perfectly competent when it came to hacking a chicken into pieces with a butcher's cleaver.

Josh Hartnett, a rising American movie-star, is perfectly competent as Charlie.