Sentence examples for adept at something from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it's just as well that Iranians are adept at something they call ta'arof, a form of ritual politeness that allows the appearance of good manners without revealing the true feelings behind them.

But in prison, sports make me feel like I'm adept at something.

He's fantastically adept at conveying something beyond the natural or the normal without spelling it out: Tonto notes that time in this place "didn't leak away as it should" but "collected as the black water did on the marshes and remained and stagnated in the same way".

It isn't just Junkboy who's adept at turning something shiny and realistic (enough) into pixel-perfect art reminiscent of a bygone era.

It isn't just Junkboy who's adept at turning something shiny and realistic (enough) into pixel-perfect art reminiscent of a bygone era.

What they are adept at is recognizing something they have already seen.

He is so adept at making one feel something without it ever feeling manipulative.

NIKHIL, INDIANA While there is merit in pushing yourself to improve at something you're not adept at, if being on the team makes you that unhappy, then it's fine to quit and try something else.

Sommer and Paxson [18] outlined a number of challenges for MLAs in intrusion detection, highlighting the fact that machine learning tools are most adept at finding activity similar to something previously seen, which goes against the general definition of the anomaly-based intrusion detection techniques that seek to identify novel attacks.

I was pretty adept at reading the sleeve notes to something I was playing so I could pretend I knew what I was talking about.

Carlos (Fele Martínez), the much-older love interest, is adept at Google or library science or something, and through him, we get into volumes on the occult, and the more recent annals of Regina's homestead.