Sentence examples for proficient at the from inspiring English sources

He went part of the way through cooking school and was quite proficient at the stove.

Mr. Taylor is proficient at the peripheral material, but he still needs to work on what happens center stage.

They are no less talented than West Ham but are less proficient at the mechanics of securing a result.

He was, by all accounts, proficient at the job, but he excelled particularly at the social side of it.

She gets good grades in school, is already proficient at the computer, and talks with confidence about becoming a lawyer.

Many of the gangs had become proficient at the processing of slicing open the laminated photo on a passport and replacing one photo with another.

The theory maintains that it will require a basketball player ten thousand hours of concentrated jump shooting to become proficient at that task — the same for the tasks of painters, musicians, and lawyers.

"We produced a mutant enzyme that is very efficient at cutting off the sugars in A and B blood, and is much more proficient at removing the subtypes of the A-antigen that the parent enzyme struggles with," said David Kwan, the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at UBC.

This is particularly true because Mr. Changchien is so proficient at differentiating the two roles: the slick, sexy imaginary Kwan and the awkward but genial real one.

In fact, once we become proficient at reading, the precise shape of the letters — not to mention the arbitrariness of the spelling — doesn't even matter, which is why we read word, WORD, and WoRd the same way.

French forces had suffered from Viet Minh ambushes, an attack that the latter had become very proficient at throughout the war, most notably in the annihilation of Group Mobile 42 in 1950 and of GM 100 in 1954.