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    Use "deftly" in a sentence

    deftly example sentences

    deftly


    1. sticks his weapon in Russ’ stomach, Russ deftly steps aside, grabs the barrel of the gun, gives the soldier a firm knee in the groin, snatches away the weapon, as the soldier collapses in a heap on the highway


    2. ” He had quickly turned her around and he deftly divided her hair into three sections and began a simple braid


    3. He takes away the tray, deftly closing the door behind him with a quick twist of his foot, and I leap into action … at least that is the intention


    4. could move, Bram deftly intercepted the request, gesticulating


    5. Since the lad who usually tapped out the telegraphs was away to lunch, he sidled around the counter and deftly tapped out his message himself


    6. 27 was only a few yards distant, but there had been a slight fall of snow, and Father and Mother Darling picked their way over it deftly not to soil their shoes


    7. come on don't shillyshally across to the station with you now, 'an don't make a break for it or you'll all be clobbered right smartly" the man deftly held a solid looking ebony club in his left hand and pushed Nimblefax off the seat onto the roadway


    8. Mountain-Spirit held the card between thumb and second finger and deftly rotated it in a full circle


    9. She undid his fastenings as deftly as her half-inebriated state allowed


    10. He bent and deftly plucked it from its escape route

    11. Bending over the mouse he deftly nipped the ears off


    12. Humming the signature tune to ER, I staggering over to the kitchen sink, picked up the chicken and deftly sliced around one leg with a sharp knife


    13. The ostrich plucked the sock from Shooter's hand, deftly flicking the offending object over the roof of the car


    14. Finally admitting defeat, I watched as Uncle Hobart deftly open it with a self-satisfied smirk


    15. A lancet flashed, and Dorian held the woman, pinned and screaming, as another agnate deftly prepared the pill


    16. While deep into her center, he deftly nibbled at an earlobe, his breath moistening the nape of her neck


    17. She deftly opened it and pulled away the inner lining, which appeared to Colling to have been glued to a cardboard or thin wooden panel


    18. He deftly blocked the maneuver with a Lomcevak followed by a shark’s tooth followed by a half-roll


    19. To Molo, it looked as if he was basking in the light of the suns, like the lizard he must have deftly caught with nothing but his knife


    20. On the way to the frig, Bruce deftly fingered a remote

    21. Deftly he fashioned this into a three-cornered cup, filled it from the spring, and handed it to Rosemary


    22. “I’ll be back,” she said and deftly snagged three plates from the counter and delivered them to a family of six, then returned for three more


    23. Nicolas stepped deftly over the young man


    24. A bird chime rang in his back pocket and he deftly tapped the ball from ten yards into the hole


    25. and Jack (6) held on from behind as we deftly stalked the wild and cagey


    26. Deftly disposing of the Old Testament (“The


    27. ” Dren chuckled as he stood and deftly snatched the ring from her fingers


    28. Deftly, a pair of handcuffs was snapped around his right wrist and around the steering-wheel


    29. The younger hunter unhooked a large rabbit and slung it over to Titus who deftly caught the dead animal


    30. deftly lassoed his head and pul ed the noose tight

    31. The agile Gaeans evaded the falling rock deftly


    32. Heartsing dealt with them deftly and Rauros found himself unprotected once more


    33. The assassin also removed the box containing the castle and threw it off the roof to his twin, who caught it deftly and laid it down upon the cobbles


    34. Whipping out his knife he deftly severed the hand at the wrist, threw the remains into the pond, wrapped it in his face kerchief and stuffed the gory bundle into one of the large pockets on the leg of his camo pants


    35. JY dragged the writhing snake into shallow water and deftly changed his hold catching the creature behind its head where Sam‘s teeth marks had branded the noxious skin


    36. In that tiny instant when Jane was out of his sight she deftly snatched the torn paper from the waste basket, put it behind her back and surreptitiously tucked it into the back of her suit trousers, pulling down her jacket to hide it


    37. Simon and Nathan deftly caught the missile as it slid from the tube and hauled it to where the boom arm could reach it


    38. table in order to face one another while the host deftly


    39. deftly out of the way of any apparent innocent movement


    40. deftly swung the rental over, much to the concern of a lady in a

    41. He found a large asteroid and deftly carved a heart with his and Fiona’s initials into the surface of the asteroid with lasers designed to tear apart enemy warships


    42. In the embrace, they deftly traded data modules


    43. ” Her mother remarked without rancor as she deftly rolled out the piecrust for the fifth pie of the morning


    44. Jerry deftly pulled a rope to tell the petrels to pitch down, forcing the prow of the ship upwards


    45. Yosef was both nervous and curious as the woman stopped her horse in front of him and jumped deftly out of the saddle


    46. Admiring comments and exclamations went around the hall when Nancy took off her cape and, jumping deftly on top of a table, started playing her lute and singing in Koine, giving the soldiers sitting at that table a good look up her short tunic


    47. She then opened the rear exit hatch and deftly pulled herself out of the spacesuit


    48. It was miraculous – a feat of helmsman-ship so deftly executed that she might


    49. Susan rolled hers deftly, causing Karl to stare, before they lit up and sat smoking on opposite ends of the couch in silence


    50. Nearly drowning out the soft melodies played deftly by the tuxedoed pianist at the grand piano, the wind howled loudly, though this was only the precursor to the forceful gales that would arrive later and shake the solid structure of the building, and rattled the individual panes that had survived many a similar storm before this












































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    Synonyms for "deftly"

    deftly dexterously dextrously

    "deftly" definitions

    with dexterity; in a dexterous manner


    in a deft manner