Sentence examples for deftly placed from inspiring English sources

"I have a dressing room!" she announced, whipping a cotton sheet into a private cocoon with a few deftly placed safety pins.

Mr. Clowes can create a striking face with a few deftly placed lines or brush strokes, often seizing on some specific characteristic that summons up an indelible personality.

After detaching the lungs from my pig, Sir Bacon, cutting away the grayish-pinkish globs of muscle, fat, and skin, my teacher deftly placed them on a tray and ushered the class over with a wave of his hand.

Jill Lepore's article on Robert Ettinger, who founded the Cryonics Institute, in Michigan, deftly placed the cryonics "movement" squarely with the lunatic fringe, where it belongs ("The Iceman," January 25th).

Brian Harvey Victoria, B.C. Jill Lepore's article on Robert Ettinger, who founded the Cryonics Institute, in Michigan, deftly placed the cryonics "movement" squarely with the lunatic fringe, where it belongs ("The Iceman," January 25th).

Then and in 2007, the SNP deftly placed themselves firmly on Scotland's side by arguing that, when it came to Scottish issues, they were the only politicians who did not have to look over their shoulders towards Westminster.

Sanders followed by deftly placing a bunt to the right side of the infield.

Truong deftly places these characters in the borderland between inherited Buddhism and imposed Roman Catholicism.

In the 64th minute, Neymar scored the tying goal, executing a slick cutback between two defenders and deftly placing a midrange shot just inside the far post.

Miller deftly places the engineer's story against the backdrop of a country eagerly interrogating both its past and its present.

As artist Loza deftly places it, "La Casa Blanca is a despotic symbol, it's uninvolved with its surroundings, which in its seeming architectural gleam is a way of shutting out the outside world.