ADEPT in a Sentence

Learn ADEPT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for ADEPT, such as:

1. She's very adept at dealing with the media.
2. Melissa quickly became adept at predicting his moods.
3. He's usually very adept at keeping his private life out of the media.
4. The direct marketing industry has become adept at packaging special offers.
5. She had become adept at putting unpleasant thoughts out of her mind these days.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADEPT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
adept
 a.  expert at; very skilled; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Classic Sentence:
1  An adept in the business, standing at the box and seeing by the mere action of the elbow where each put his ball, scowled with annoyance.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 30
2  She had become adept at putting unpleasant thoughts out of her mind these days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  The direct marketing industry has become adept at packaging special offers.
2  He's usually very adept at keeping his private life out of the media.
3  She's very adept at dealing with the media.
4  Melissa quickly became adept at predicting his moods.
5  Mr. Williams was known as an adept improviser who effortlessly switched between classical, jazz and pop styles.
6  In fact one of the main criticisms of Mr. Brown is that throughout the last ten years he's been particularly adept at avoiding association with some of Mr. Blair's more controversial decisions.