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    Use "forte" in a sentence

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    forte


    1. ‘His forte is protection not attack


    2. ‘Maybe … but my forte is knowing what will sell


    3. comfortable with the animals, but found his forte in driving and


    4. Herold was all too familiar with this Work’s contents, as this field concerned her own forte


    5. If pecans aren't your forte, substitute walnuts or almonds!" Original recipe yield: 1 pound


    6. Solving legal problems such as his was just her forte


    7. Researching wasn’t her forte


    8. Guilt obviously wasn’t their forte


    9. Jack took a different tack this time, lying was his forte; he had mastered it over the years with apparent conviction, much like politicians, especially the old bruisers


    10. A previous recipient of the Australian based Michael Harrison Award for Print Journalism, Mituri’s forte and passion lies firmly in fiction writing

    11. holes was my forte


    12. Cooking and cleaning was her forte; nursing was not


    13. This was her forte, her vision, and her passion


    14. Bridget in particular was fascinated by it all, as property was her forte


    15. It was just that physical exertion wasn’t his forte


    16. “Enough with the lecturing stuff,” Tylin said, “biology wasn’t my forte in high school


    17. “No, Chief La Forte, I wish I had


    18. Chief La Forte nodded in approval and then waved goodbye


    19. The two-twenty yards was his forte


    20. If, on the other hand, writing isn’t your forte, you can use rebrandable Ebooks that

    21. Garcia smiled to himself, knowing simulations were his forte


    22. would be his forte


    23. “With all due respect to Ambassador Spock, his forte was not Sociology


    24. If Melissa could read emotions and repressed memories like a mystic, this was Jason's forte; he could tell unerringly what a woman wanted, what she desperately needed


    25. surprise element was the attack forte of the Divine Dragon Skills


    26. Nangong Ping was using defend as a forte and he seemed to be using all his


    27. Now, if you know my mother, you know “taking charge of a situation” is not her forte


    28. Connie’s forte was running the everyday operations of the library: setting work schedules, planning events for schools and storytimes for stay-at-home-moms, ordering new books, working the floor with the others and interacting with the public


    29. A head on fight was her forte and she was going to see this through to the end


    30. Besides not being that popular of an attraction on the Vegas stage show circuit, juggling four balls at once was not his forte

    31. Carnage was his forte, and upon it he feasted


    32. She didn't mind most domestic chores, but kitchen smells, grease and cooking schedules were just not her forte


    33. “I completed two years of a law degree,” he said, “science was never my forte


    34. It was Cami’s forte, so she would handle it


    35. Their forte had been the environmental


    36. George's forte, I was informed by a bemused


    37. Roque turned round at the noise and perceived this comely figure, which drawing near thus addressed him, "I came in quest of thee, valiant Roque, to find in thee if not a remedy at least relief in my misfortune; and not to keep thee in suspense, for I see thou dost not recognise me, I will tell thee who I am; I am Claudia Jeronima, the daughter of Simon Forte, thy good friend, and special enemy of Clauquel Torrellas, who is thine also as being of the faction opposed to thee


    38. The effect of his discourse on the lady too, could not escape her observation, for though she was too honorable to listen, and had even changed her seat, on purpose that she might not hear, to one close by the piano forte on which Marianne was playing, she could not keep herself from seeing that Elinor changed colour, attended with agitation, and was too intent on what he said to pursue her employment


    39. Mamy Dillon used to say they are and the night too that was her massgoing Id love a big juicy pear now to melt in your mouth like when I used to be in the longing way then Ill throw him up his eggs and tea in the moustachecup she gave him to make his mouth bigger I suppose hed like my nice cream too I know what Ill do Ill go about rather gay not too much singing a bit now and then mi fa pieta Masetto then Ill start dressing myself to go out presto non son piu forte Ill put on my best shift and drawers let him have a good eyeful out of that to make his micky stand for him Ill let him know if thats what he wanted that his wife is I s l o fucked yes and damn well fucked too up to my neck nearly not by him 5 or 6 times handrunning theres the mark of his spunk on the clean sheet I wouldnt bother to even iron it out that ought to satisfy him if you dont believe me feel my belly unless I made him stand there and put him into me Ive a mind to tell him every scrap and make him do it out in front of me serve him right its all his own fault if I am an adulteress as the thing in the gallery said O much about it if thats all the harm ever we did in this vale of tears God knows its not much doesnt everybody only they hide it I suppose thats what a woman is supposed to be there for or He wouldnt have made us the way He did so attractive to men then if hewants to kiss my bottom Ill drag open my drawers and bulge it right out in his face as large as life he can stick his tongue 7 miles up my hole as hes there my brown part then Ill tell him I want LI or perhaps 30/- Ill tell him I want to buy underclothes then if he gives me that well he wont be too bad I dont want to soak it all out of him like other women do I could often have written out a fine cheque for myself and write his name on it for a couple of pounds a few times he forgot to lock it up besides he wont spend it Ill let him do it off on me behind provided he doesnt smear all my good drawers O I suppose that cant be helped Ill do the indifferent l or 2 questions Ill know by the answers when hes like that he cant keep a thing back I know every turn in him Ill tighten my bottom well and let out a few smutty words smellrump or lick my shit or the first mad thing comes into my head then Ill suggest about yes O wait now sonny my turn is coming Ill be quite gay and friendly over it O but I was forgetting this bloody pest of a thing pfooh you wouldnt know which to laugh or cry were such a mixture of plum and apple no Ill have to wear the old things so much the better itll be more pointed hell never know whether he did it or not there thats good enough for you any old thing at all then Ill wipe him off me just like a business his omission then Ill go out Ill have him eying up at the ceiling where is she gone now make him want me thats the only way a quarter after what an unearthly hour I suppose theyre just getting up in China now combing out their pigtails for the day well soon have the nuns ringing the angelus theyve nobody coming in to spoil their sleep except an odd priest or two for his night office or the alarmclock next door at cockshout clattering the brains out of itself let me see if I can doze off 1 2 3 4 5 what kind of flowers are those they invented like the stars the wallpaper in Lombard street was much nicer the apron he gave me was like that something only I only wore it twice better lower this lamp and try again so as I can get up early Ill go to Lambes there beside Findlaters and get them to send us some flowers to put about the place in case he brings him home tomorrow today I mean no no Fridays an unlucky day first I want to do the place up someway the dust grows in it I think while Im asleep then we can have music and cigarettes I can accompany him first


    40. I felt at once like a Prisoner of the Inquisition, or a Felon being put to the Peine Forte et Dure, for e’en as my Pains came in Waves, this other Force of cold Metal insinuated itself into my very Bowels, jabbing and twisting; ’twas groping, it seem’d, for the Head of the Babe, that refus’d, in its Obstinacy, to turn

    41. Christopher’s—or was it Tartola? No matter, we’ll find your Babe, for, as Virgil says: ‘Non aliter quam qui adverso vix flumine lembun / Remigiis subigit: si brachia forte remisit; / Atque illum praceps prono rapit alveus amni!’ Which means, as you know, my dearest Fanny—I only translate for our ignorant Lancelot—that when we are most exhausted and cannot row with Oars, oft’times the Current itself sweeps us along! So ’twill with our Search for your Babe! You have row’d long and hard enough; now let the Current sweep us to our Prize, the beauteous Belinda! But if I catch you two in Bed, there’ll be no Belinda, and no Lancelot nor Fanny neither! For I have not regain’d my delicious Fanny only to see her devour’d by my delicious Lancelot! And if you make the Beast with two Backs, I’ll stab ’em both as sure as I can play Othello!”


    42. Their forte includes roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, and other related infrastructure projects


    43. “I think tragic roles are her forte,” she would later observe


    44. Do you wonder that I avow this to you? Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find yourself elected the involuntary confidant of your acquaintances’ secrets: people will instinctively find out, as I have done, that it is not your forte to tell of yourself, but to listen while others talk of themselves; they will feel, too, that you listen with no malevolent scorn of their indiscretion, but with a kind of innate sympathy; not the less comforting and encouraging because it is very unobtrusive in its manifestations


    45. The effect of his discourse on the lady too, could not escape her observation, for though she was too honorable to listen, and had even changed her seat, on purpose that she might NOT hear, to one close by the piano forte on which Marianne was playing, she could not keep herself from seeing that Elinor changed colour, attended with agitation, and was too intent on what he said to pursue her employment


    46. he saith that there were not any victuals or ordinarie sustinance for men in the said forte or habitacion at the tyme of the taking of them, the men in the same haveing lived by the space of about 2 monthes before upon nothinge but rootes


    47. he saith that being in distresse for want of victuals this examinate sent his brother and twenty more persons in a small pinnace of 7 or 8 tonnes called the Le Loania833 and one hundred coates or gownes to a place called Gaspey and gave his brother order to land twentie of them there, whereof as he remembreth 2 were weomen and 4 children, and gave them each of them 2 Coates of beaver to buy victualls of the Savages, and with the rest to saile to France to give notice of their distresse in the said forte ac aliter nescit


    48. order (who was imployed as pylott and merchant in his voyage complained of) had bene imployed in a former voyage by ye Adventurers of Canada, and that (but by that imployment) he had noe knowledge of that Coast; We likewise finde by other circumstances that he was not ignorant that ye Forte of Kebecke in those partes was taken and mayntained by ye said Adventurers, the charge whereof is apparent they could not undergoe but by the benefitt of their trade there; Wee likewise finde that at his last arrival there notice was given him from the said Adventurers that he ought not to trade there, to which notwithstanding he would not conforme: And such notice is proved by a letre subscribed by hymselfe which lre


    49. Pountgrave att the rendringe of the Forte


    50. [Footnote: ET JE N'AI PAS LA TETE FORTE




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    Synonyms for "forte"

    forte long suit metier speciality specialty strength strong point strong suit loud loudly

    "forte" definitions

    an asset of special worth or utility


    a musical composition or musical passage to be performed loudly


    the stronger part of a sword blade between the hilt and the foible


    (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) loud; with force


    used as a direction in music; to be played relatively loudly