Sentence examples for looks competent from inspiring English sources
He looks competent and businesslike.
"He looks competent to me".
Jaime looks competent, but he needs a new plan.
That might be because Mr Salmond's administration looks competent and purposeful, while the Westminster government is implementing big spending cuts and presiding over a struggling economy.
May have the ability to make Michael Gove look competent.
They might, however, have hoped to prevail by looking competent.
She did well in the wind and everything today and she looked competent.
Similarly, the desire to look competent may cause people to suppress comments they fear others will think foolish.A preference for agreement can lead to a bias towards the obvious.
In study after study, participants' responses to the question of whether someone looked competent predicted actual election outcomes at a rate much higher than chance — from sixty-six to seventy-three per cent of the time.
The good news for the Eagles, aside from the fact that the defense finally looked competent and Michael Vick played well, is that when they return from the bye, they have three straight games at home, starting with the Dallas Cowboys.
If the batting looked competent for the conditions and the opposition, the heavyweight slug-out going on between Australia and South Africa simultaneously over in St Kitts illustrated the discrepancy that they might find with better pitches.
