EXPERT in a Sentence

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For EXPERT, below is one of 144 sentences:
I had, therefore, examined the ears in the box with the eyes of an expert and had carefully noted their anatomical peculiarities.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPERT
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expert
 n.  person with a high degree of skill in a certain subject
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  That's an art which every detective should be an expert at.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3  The light but variable breeze, foretold by the weather expert, flapped the yellow curtain, tossing light, then shadow.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
5  It is evidently a case of extraordinary interest, and one which presented immense opportunities to the scientific expert.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
6  I had, therefore, examined the ears in the box with the eyes of an expert and had carefully noted their anatomical peculiarities.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
7  And the flight was a swift one, since it took five miles before an expert cyclist could overtake them.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
8  My examination showed me that I was dealing with a cautious and expert criminal.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
9  Lestrade chuckled with delight at having puzzled the famous expert.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
10  Frequently she flared into open wrath under his expert baiting, for she had Gerald's Irish temper along with the deceptive sweetness of face she had inherited from Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  "Scarlett ought to be in bed," insisted Mrs. Tarleton, running her eyes over her with the expert air of one who calculated a pregnancy to the last minute of its length.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
12  He was an expert at concocting strong drinks.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
13  First there were the "splitters," the most expert workmen in the plant, who earned as high as fifty cents an hour, and did not a thing all day except chop hogs down the middle.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  He was an expert and efficient workman in whatever he undertook; and was, both from habit and principle, prompt and faithful.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  There was a man who was well known in his community as a Negro, but who was so white that even an expert would have hard work to classify him as a black man.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
Example Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
16  The handwriting expert attested to the genuineness of the signature.
17  He posed as an expert on old coins.
18  He's expert at/in cooking good cheap meals.
19  He has/makes no pretensions to being an expert on the subject.
20  He's a world expert on marine mammals.
21  I don't profess expert knowledge of/to be an expert in this subject.
22  We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
23  He has no right to term himself an expert.
24  He is an expert in juvenile delinquency.
25  He is an expert in military strategy.
26  All the young men are expert drivers.
27  He has not press-agented himself as an expert on schooling.
28  Being an expert, he was able to pick a hole in our work.
29  It takes a lot of nerve to be a bomb disposal expert.
30  She is a world expert on butterflies.