How to Use deft in a Sentence

deft

adjective

• The photographer is known for her deft use of lighting.
• Both girls are deft with the glove.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2026
• Nobody can rock the boat with quite the same deft moves as she.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• His deputies and outriders are not quite so deft.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
• In a single deft gesture, the sheets drew his body from the light.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
• Warren showed his deft shooting touch in the midrange on two key plays in the fourth.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2020
• With deft strokes of her needle and thread, Lowe brought out the best of her clients.
  — Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
• Ikegwu is a deft painter with an expert eye for light and color.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• To have bought and sold them at the right moments required deft timing.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• Partly that lies in the quartet's deft approach to their work.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• Shiffrin took two forceful yet deft runs through the course and considered a third.
  — Bill Pennington, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
• The cat made a deft U-turn, scampered out of the trap, and vanished.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Much of it, in the first half, is funny, deft, and dotted with suspense.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
• With a deft hand they can be turned sideways to cut a notch along sidewalks, patios and drives.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
• Expect crisp shots into the corner of the net as well as deft assists.
  — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 June 2025
• There was a deft flick behind his leg on the touchline to Banega.
  — Thomas Allnutt, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• The series is deft in capturing both the horrors and joys of high school.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
• The writing is also charming and deft, and the show is a delight to watch.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 23 May 2018
• Gray controls all this with such a deft touch that the novel remains a joy throughout.
  — Ian Rankin, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• Barber responded with a deft sand shot, enabling a tap-in for the record.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
• Among young voters, Ko has a leg up thanks to his deft use of social media.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• But Matild Palace’s calling card is a deft balance of past and present.
  — Alia Akkam, Robb Report, 20 July 2021
• Holiday was 4-for-20 and didn’t have a deft touch on his shots at the rim.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021
• There’s that tense, eerie feeling created with such a deft hand in Alien.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Even the deftest dim sum chefs can only make 120 dumplings per hour, Zhang said.
  — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
• These perks didn't diminish the Rover's deft off-road handling.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023
• Pulisic set up Weah for a deft finish in the 36th minute against the Welsh.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2022
• Texas rolled in the first set, overwhelming Kentucky with its size and deft skill around the net.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2021
• That’s not easy, and Williams guided the Suns through a long season with a deft touch.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2022
• But the infusion feels as deft as duct taping a trunk to the roof of a station wagon.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020