skilful

How To Use skilful In A Sentence

• This done with expedition, like men skilful in such mischief, as they took their cockboat to go aboard their own ship, it was overwhelmed in the sea, and certain of these men there drowned; the rest were preserved even by those silly souls whom they had before spoiled, who saved and delivered them aboard the _Swallow_. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
• Hence the quotation from ‘Shepherd's Hey ’, which is skilfully counterpointed with the ‘Enigma’ theme in bar 25.
• Even with its uneven moments, it is a skilfully written book that never stops inventing.
• Women skilfully carry heavy loads on their heads.
• They have been playing together for a long time, have a lot of experience and are a skilful side.
• She had used make-up skilfully to mask her bruise, and with the subdued stage light it was scarcely visible.
• But no matter how skilfully it's done, it shows somewhere: the stretched grimace, the unblinking eyes or in the body below, if it hasn't been done to match.
• With the aid of lacker varnish and skilful painting, paper made excellent trunks, tobacco bags, cigar cases, saddles, telescope cases, the frames of microscopes; and we even saw and used excellent water-proof coats made of simple paper, which did keep out the rain, and were as supple as the best macintosh ... .. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
• This chapter also draws largely, especially upon geological and chemical science, and affords another illustration of what, I trust, Mr. Stephens's book will more and more impress upon our working farmers, that _skilful practice is applied science_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
• Menander was a skilful constructor of plots, an imaginative deviser of situations, and a master of variety and suspense.