Sentence examples for adept at wielding from inspiring English sources
"He has become quite adept at wielding his hooks".
But for £50, enthusiasts adept at wielding a soldering iron could construct a Sinclair ZX81 from a kit.
He's adept at wielding sarcasm in a way that can both disarm and manipulate — signaling a likable, faux-fatalistic awareness of How the Game Is Played.
PARIS — With her signature long hennaed hair, fiery resolve and olive-green military fatigues, Sakine Cansiz was a feminist, guerrilla fighter and former political prisoner as adept at wielding a machine gun as organizing political protests from a jail cell.
A few old-timers remain, but most of the 15,000 delegates at this year's event were more adept at wielding a BlackBerry than a pickaxe, and were more likely to have come from Mongolia, Peru or South Africa than Balmertown, northern Ontario.
Despite a few glitches Alastair Campbell's well-publicised determination to "fuck" Andrew Gilligan, a former press officer's e-mail welcoming September 11th 2001 as "a good day to bury bad news"—the current lot are reckoned to be rather adept at wielding them.
The students were adept at cowering under tables or wielding pens like daggers, even if much of their previous performance experience was limited to PowerPoint presentations.
His latest muse is Zoe Saldana, the blue-skinned heroine of "Avatar," who proves to be equally adept at the essential skill of wielding large guns while wearing skimpy clothing.
His muse this time is Zoë Saldana, who proves perfectly adept at the essential skills of wielding large guns and crawling through narrow spaces while wearing skimpy or skin-tight clothing.
His muse this time is Zoe Saldana, who proves perfectly adept at the essential skills of wielding large guns and crawling through narrow spaces while wearing skimpy or skin-tight clothing.
For a wildly different example of persuasion, consider the power wielded by Jim Jones, who was so adept at building rapport with his followers that he was able to coordinate, through speech, the agreement among hundreds of followers to commit suicide in protest "of an inhumane world" (Jones et al. 1978).
