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Example sentences for "skills"

Lexicographically close words:
skillets; skillful; skillfull; skillfully; skillings; skilly; skim; skimmed; skimmer; skimmers
  1. But I want you to know there's still more, beyond what we've had together, beyond my skills and knowledge.

  2. Their martial skills were never allowed to gather rust, even if the cost was perpetual slaughter of each other.

  3. What skills it if a bag of stones or gold / About thy neck do drown thee?

  4. The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, / Is his who skills of comfort best.

  5. The instrument of this discovery was a hard-eyed Palestinian girl, Ramala, whose fiery politics were matched only by her skills in bed.

  6. Known for their skills in inserting by helicopter, either by rappelling or by parachuting, they could also swim half a mile under water and come out blasting, using their specially loaded Norma ammo.

  7. He would not need to betray his country, merely lend his skills to help teach the Americans a lesson.

  8. Its arrival and accurate landing here spoke volumes for the flying skills of whoever had been at the controls.

  9. But the word on such skills got around, and two months later Pierre Armont had approached him about joining ARM.

  10. His politics were as simplistic as his technical skills were state-of- the-art: he never managed to understand why everyone in the world did not act rationally.

  11. We have the facilities, materials, skills and knowledge rapidly to expand the production of things we need for our defense whenever they are required.

  12. Against the record of all other economic systems devised through the ages, this competitive system has proved the most creative user of human skills in the development of physical resources, and the richest rewarder of human effort.

  13. It begins with mute respect and distant reverence; but when opportunities occur, familiarity increases, and so--But it skills not talking with one who thinks herself wiser than all the world.

  14. Over the longer term, Bangkok must produce more college graduates with technical training and upgrade workers' skills to continue its rapid economic development.

  15. World economy in 1975 includes three essential elements: the planet earth and its resources; the institutional structure of modern society; and human beings with their diverse concepts and skills which provide its motive force.

  16. Plans are tentative; there are shortages of materials and particularly of skills based on experience.

  17. Large scale research and experiment should go a long way toward developing the skills required by competent and successful planetary leadership.

  18. In the new fields new skills were developed and new professions built up.

  19. If the conditions presently existing in human society affordment, skills and technical experience necessary to make significant changes, why wait?

  20. Lacking city skills they work as casual labor or are unemployed.

  21. Experience which coils round and strangles quick Each hope with 'Ask the Past if hoping skills "'To work accomplishment, or proves a trick Wiling thee to endeavor!

  22. Because, so brave, so better though they be, It nothing skills if He begin to plague.

  23. When vocational training was finally adopted in 1919, the chances for farm children to keep up with the burgeoning technology and sharpen their acquired skills were immeasurably increased.

  24. They also sharpened their skills in agricultural shop courses.

  25. In Virginia practical skills were taught but so were a program of social studies dealing with the quality of life in rural areas, focusing on problems of transportation, recreation, resource protection and consumption patterns.

  26. The citizens of Floris had worked together to raise money for the vocational school; they also contributed their skills and time to its construction.

  27. In the emulation of their parents' activity, they benefitted from a kind of on-the-job training which both sharpened their skills for a later farm career and furthered their identity with the family group and farm life in general.

  28. Production of capabilities and skills required for modernization and industrialization considered to be a major goal.

  29. As is the case with the navy, the air force is also a part of the People's Army, having organizational and logistic individuality only insofar as its equipment is different and requires different techniques and skills in its use.

  30. The targets of criticism range from content to the skills of the performers to the management of the stage and theater.

  31. Ranking thirty-sixth in area and sixteenth in population among the states of the United States, Virginia has an attractive environmental location with a large diversity of skills among its inhabitants.

  32. The skills and techniques of painting are currently taught in the schools, colleges and art clubs, as well as by private tutors, throughout Virginia.

  33. Following the War between the States and its resulting poverty, many of the skills of the earlier craftsmen seemed to disappear.

  34. Similarly, only when language skills become habitual does a speaker of a foreign language achieve command of it.

  35. T-groups were made up of "normally adjusted people" who were interested in improving their communication skills so they could become more competent in difficult interpersonal situations.

  36. Biofeedback equipment can be used to teach you how to reduce tension, develop skills to bring about relaxation, or cope more successfully with chronic pain.

  37. Like athletic ability, skills in meditation cannot be developed without regular practice.

  38. France and German lands, but particularly France, inherited through the monasteries what survived of the old Roman skills and technical arts.

  39. We are also indebted to Rome for many practical skills and for important engineering knowledge, which was saved and passed on to Western Europe through the medium of the monks.

  40. The home was a center in which most of the arts and trades were practiced, and in the long winter evenings the old crafts and skills were turned to commercial account.

  41. But you must know, good Drgon: an Owner is a warrior trained in the skills of battle.

  42. A Driver and Piper of such skills as your own can claim what place he chooses.

  43. Unemployment is high, and the large youth population generally lacks the education and technical skills the private sector needs.

  44. Why, had I had but light enough the other night--But it skills not speaking of it--Here we leave off.

  45. It skills not striving against the stream--the devil rules the roast, and makes our slaves our tutors.

  46. From existing minds such traits and skills as each was supposed to possess could be copied more or less accurately.

  47. The skills of cool, clear thinking, which education tried to impart in an era that needed it so much, fell short again.

  48. No, he hadn't got his skills at any university.

  49. They honed their skills in a community which shared intelligence and they grew to rely on the pool of information.

  50. No, he hadn't learned his skills while working for a company.

  51. Force watched Phoenix's hacking skills develop with interest and after a couple of months he invited him to join The Realm.

  52. Via the messages, Par continued to improve his hacking skills while also talking with his friends, people like Erik Bloodaxe, from Texas, and Phoenix, from The Realm in Melbourne.

  53. Both adults and teenagers can acquire these valuable skills now by taking free courses that are offered in many communities, such as the Medical Self-Help course or a First Aid course.

  54. Given the guidance one can receive at school, it then becomes possible to teach elementary research skills to students, which in fact one particular librarian said she was teaching her fifth graders.

  55. She viewed the situation not as one of fine-tuning research skills but of involving students at a personal level in understanding and researching things.

  56. Numerous teachers have reported that their students are learning critical thinking skills using the system.

  57. As a result, there is no investment in the future (in the acquisition of skills or in long term investments, to give but two examples); f.

  58. An erosion of the human capital, its skills and availability.

  59. These academic products suffer from the twin afflictions of irrelevance of skills and the inability to acquire relevant ones, the latter being the result of decades of brainwashing and industrial educational methods.

  60. As was the usual case, the Greeks traded their superior civilization and culture for the superior administrative and economic skills of the natives.

  61. He had positioned himself uphill, and downwind of the gentle fold through which they must pass, betting his life on the skills he had learned as a boy.

  62. Only they lack the skills and social graces, like the ones you learned in college, to be subtle and self-justifying about it.

  63. Other sciences develop some of these forms of skill better than biology does; nevertheless, we shall find that biology furnishes a remarkably balanced opportunity to develop skills of the various kinds.

  64. Indeed, skills are in a sense habits from another point of view.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skills" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.