If you are a dextrous plowman, you can drive your plow any number of times along the simple curve.
Genuine Acting ceases in all departments of the world's work; dextrous Similitude of Acting begins.
The Astronomer regarding the South and Meridian Sun, calls that the dextrous part of Heaven which respecteth his right hand; and that is the West.
Lord Stanley especially adopted this line of remark, with the dextrous facility his lordship possessed for turning every occurrence and every admission of an opponent into an element of party attack.
He reenumerated the misfortunes which befel Ireland and the colonies during the three previous years, and all the monetary difficulties which befel England, and attributed them, with dextrous dishonesty, to whig impolicy and free trade.
His eulogies were as dextrous and expressive as they were, nevertheless, morally repugnant to honest minds.
He is a thoroughly dextrous man--sagacious, subtle, scheming, and indefatigable.
He forbade his troops also to provoke skirmishes, well knowing that the Moors were more dextrous than most people in this irregular mode of fighting, and were better acquainted with the ground.
The Moor was powerful in wielding his weapons and dextrous in managing his steed.
With all this, it must be said of them that they were marvellous good men in the field, dextrous archers and powerful with the battle-axe.
A Jew and a Christian monk who were in his conspiracy aided him in his dextrous moves, and he soon became powerful enough to resist a vigorous man named Corais, a learned Arab, who endeavored to expose his imposture.
Is there anything, for example, more dextrous than the manner in which he treated the subject of the woman taken in adultery?
The taster was to avoid, by means of some dextrous management, the taking of any portion of the fatal ingredients himself.
The plot, dextrous as the contrivance of it had been, was not destined to succeed.
At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dextrous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.
With your long forceps, which work like a dextrous thumb and finger eight inches long, pick up the chopped tow, and little by little insert it in the skin where it is needed.
Yet her flashing and dextrous hands found no revolver, for the simple reason there was none to find.
Her quick and dextrous hands had pinned on a hat and veil as I stood in wonder watching her.
Then with quick and dextrousfingers she rummaged through the desk.
By some mysterious and dextrous movement the man beside me had reached forward and with that delicacy of touch doubtless born of much experience had unclasped the jewels, all the time shrouded by the utter darkness.
But one of their favourite and most dextrous blows, is, to turn round on their heel, just as they have struck their antagonist, and to give him another very smart one with the other hand backward.
Probably his dextrous disclosure of the severe terms which the Directory ordered him to extort was far more effective than this boisterous gasconnade.
Wellesley moved against Soult at Oporto, and, by a dextrous crossing of that river in his rear, compelled him to beat a calamitous retreat on Spain, with the loss of all his cannon and stores.
Dextrous feelers were put forth seawards, and it was only when these were repulsed that the French negotiators encased themselves in their preliminaries.
Far moredextrous was the conduct of the Austrian diplomatists.
Espousing the ultra-democratic side, he yet contrived to emerge unscathed from the schisms which were fatal to less dextrous trimmers.
Thus flourished poetry in the Tuscan quattrocento; for Politian was but little more poet than Lorenzo, while he was no less dextrous as a rhymer and fashioner of conceits.
At Cambridge he had been acquainted with this Mr Erpingham, and he had admired thedextrous sophistry by which this gentleman had proved the worse to be the better cause.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dextrous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
