Sentence examples for used sleight from inspiring English sources

Mr. Robins swallowed rage and used sleight of hand to "self-fund".

When the saleswoman turned her back, the man used sleight of hand to pocket a bracelet or shove a cashmere sweater down his pants.

Other times he would make a fool of the keeper: in the 1998 Uefa Cup final, he used sleight of hip to put Lazio's Luca Marchegiani on his backside without touching the ball.

On a few key trials, the experimenters used sleight-of-hand to present to the participant the face that was not selected as though it had been the face selected.

Van Thu Tran, co-founder of the Tran Organisation ring, and her husband, Phuong Truong, were working as dealers at the Sycuan Casino on the Sycuan Indian reservation in San Diego, California when they initiated a "false shuffle" scam, in which dealers used sleight-of-hand to keep certain cards together in the deck, allowing players in on the scheme to track those cards.

In an email, Silverman elaborates: Paul uses humor like a surgeon uses anesthesia, a magician uses sleight of hand, or a pickpocket charms you.

Trump is using sleight of hand by citing figures from 2008, when Obama was elected, rather than 2009, when he actually took office.

Or, if you're exceptionally wily, as the director Quentin Tarantino is in "Jackie Brown" (1997), you can use sleight of hand to misdirect the audience's attention until you're ready to pull that particular rabbit out of the hat.

Instead, as we have reported, HMRC is using sleight of hand to release information about VAT to credit reference agencies who have been disguised as contractors to avoid confidentiality law.

But while these are undeniably some of the cheapest ever offered to homebuyers, one could argue that lenders are using sleight of hand by whacking up the fees to finance those eye-catching rates – which means that for many people the deals aren't quite as mouthwatering as they first look.

The email said Payne distracts store staff and then uses sleight of hand to make off with pricey baubles.