Sentence examples for my knack from inspiring English sources

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But my knack for picking hits is woeful.

So 17 years ago, I became a certified mohel, hoping to marry my surgical skills and my knack for calming nerves with the hopeful optimism of growing families.

"And I've been filling bigger theatres than this for the last 12 years – though if I've suddenly lost my knack then we're in trouble".

Is it a sense of belonging that I momentarily gain (even if it's only in my head) when I say "Sichuan" or "mapo" in a way that signals my knack at convincingly feigning a non-Chinese?

My knack involved sensing the difference between a patch of skin on my forehead and a cooler area on my cheek, [so] I could even sense if my head was held in the right position.

My knack for ego-driven delusional storytelling became evident on retreat.

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"It's my only knack in life.

In other news, I now have burnt fingers from a hot Casserole dish to go with my back-knack.

I use Jstor and Google constantly, so that sitting here, surrounded by my knick-knacks and fetish objects, I am both at peace and fully connected to the world outside.

I have never quite had the knack my mum had, and so my years of packed lunches have mostly consisted of leftovers, batch cooking, or salads.

One such redoubt was modern poetry: "Not many of my readers suspect that, in addition to my well-known knack of expressing petty irritation in terms of high-sounding, moralistic scorn, I possess also an ability to create poetry of great confusion and charm".

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