Sentence examples for practised hand from inspiring English sources

He's prodding it with the practised hand of someone who has worked with clothes for more than 25 years.

With a practised hand, Stuart reaches through a gap in the fence and unslides the lock on the door.

But do any of the supermarket own-brands trump the ubiquitous Aunt Bessie's or come close to what a practised hand might produce at home?

There is also no evidence that Shakespeare's two daughters were literate, save for two signatures by Susanna that appear to be "drawn" instead of written with a practised hand.

James Traill Calder wrote in his 1861 Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness that "The finest cod in the north is to be got in the Pentland Firth ... Large and excellent lobsters are caught around the island [of Stroma]." As well as trapping lobsters, the islanders practised hand line cod fishing in the waters of the Firth.

In John Harvey's sure and practised hands, police procedural novels achieve new heights in grainy reality.

All her life she also practised hand-stretching exercises, and was assiduous at practising altogether, because she loved it.

So it's very good to report that Izzard is in enchantingly frisky and confiding mood here, once this self-professed "action transvestite" has tossed aside the brolly and the bowler hat of his ironic John-Steed-from-The-Avengers get-up with a practised, red-nailed hand.

As practised researchers with first-hand experience of gatekeeping, we were aware that some researchers recruit more effectively than others and curious about the ingredients of success.

"The tradition of Fair Isle hand-knitting is still practised and passed on by mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers to their daughters on Fair Isle today, although nowadays this is mostly for the pleasure of knitting for family members and friends".

And when I'm practised at that, maybe I can lend a hand next door.