How to Use practiced in a Sentence

practiced

adjective

• He split the log with practiced skill.
• Only a few of the dancers are practiced in traditional ballet.
• Now, Lavrov is such a practiced liar, he's been doing this for decades.
  — NBC news, 24 Aug. 2025
• Perhaps the show needs a director with a more practiced, lighter touch.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2021
• Handler proved herself a practiced hand, even if her jokes didn’t land at quite the same rate as Glaser’s.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
• Erpenbeck, now fifty-four, is a practiced guide to her life, even when narrating from a shaky smartphone.
  — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 14 July 2021
• These days, the Sikorsky brigade has settled into a practiced routine.
  — Carlotta Gall Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• With practiced ease, Gronkowski leapt and secured the catch for a 17-yard touchdown.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• Duncan Coles lops the head off a juvenile coconut tree with a practiced swing of his machete.
  — Kenneth R. Weiss, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2020
• There’s a practiced sense of pace here, an easy deliberation that pairs well with the subject matter.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 27 July 2022
• Here is a look at Christianity, the most practiced religion in the world.
  — CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
• To the practiced eyes of some observers, there are obvious clues that AI was used to produce the video.
  — Edward Segal, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• In person, Rogers is amiable and a practiced campaigner, an easy presence.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024
• In open play, Morocco held the Spanish at bay with a practiced expertise.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• Among them was Pat Serwaa, who was sorting through a bale of leggings from London with practiced ease.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
• Some of Grandma’s recipes take a practiced hand in the kitchen to master, but old-school dump cake recipes are literally foolproof.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025
• The practiced Chern’s been a customer of Yesterday & Today from day one.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
• Those dishes require ingredients of the highest quality and the skill of a practiced hand.
  — Lela London, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• Inside, a few dozen crew members move through the rooms with practiced efficiency, managing cameras and lighting rigs.
  — Maneet Ahuja, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• Ours was not a class of practiced chefs, but a delightful mix of seafood lovers, novices, couples, and individuals of all ages trying to learn something new.
  — Lela London, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• But in practiced hands, the trick shot can let a player seem to cover the entire court with relative ease, even in the most desperate situations.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018
• Fortunately, Charlotte improves quickly, thanks in part to a salve that Mary applies with practiced skill.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• For her fourth consecutive year as host, the comedian proved herself a practiced hand by delivering on this promise.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
• Craving the meatiest chunk of the lower leg, a Paleolithic butcher struck again and again with a sharp stone blade, removing flesh from bone with practiced skill.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• Not all of Silo’s crossover strengths — the creative bars, the practiced service, the sense of place — translated to Silo Prime.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
• Given his years on Breaking Bad, Cranston is a practiced hand at fleshing out the eccentric mind of the married man looking to shake himself out of his reverie.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• Miller-Idriss’s work requires making distinctions among groups—QAnon and the Boogaloo movement, for instance—that to a less practiced eye tend to scan as the same kind of crazy.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• With practiced ease, Chef Miguel Trinidad welcomed his guests — 42 curious diners, most of them strangers — and bid them to dig in before returning to his team in the kitchen.
  — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Sorkin is fond of flashbacks, and The Trial of the Chicago 7 flits forward and backward in time with practiced ease, revisiting the events of the protests bit by bit as the trial drags on.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2020
• The event included a number of cooking demonstrations from practiced hands, a lively tailgate filled with delicious bites and candid conversations between chefs and other culinary experts.
  — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025