How to Use sleight in a Sentence

sleight

noun

• That’s the first of two sleight-of-hand tricks Baker is pulling here.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2021
• In an act of culinary sleight-of-hand, the broth is cooked to a quiver, cooled to a gel and cubed.
  — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Yeah, there was a lot of practical sleight-of-hand magic that took place.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
• With satellite radio, this sleight of hand is even easier to pull off.
  — Ana Marie Cox, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2005
• Such sleight of hand can make even the most implausible causes stick.
  — Matthew Trammell, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2017
• Theirs is a three-card monte diversion, a hide-the-pea game, with fast talking and sleight of hand.
  — John Kass, Twin Cities, 1 June 2017
• That’s the sleight-of-hand premise Johnson begins with, anyway.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• Yet, by sleight of pen, these philosophy-laden pages remain light and graceful.
  — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• Her signature spin move and sleight-of-hand dribbling are slow-motion mood boosters.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• Simply a bit of good old-fashioned cinematic sleight-of-hand.
  — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 5 June 2018
• From sleight-of-hand tricks to daring stunts, the afternoon is designed to keep the laughs and gasps coming.
  — Tiffani Jackson Skinner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
• But that same sleight-of-hand, accompanied by the scream of the engine’s whistle, saved the bovine in the nick of time.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Whether that digital sleight-of-hand ranks as construction, damage or perhaps both is up to you.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022
• That’s not necessarily a sleight to the show itself.
  — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
• Maybe Kim Jong Un is really wily, and this whole missile thing is just sleight of hand.
  — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 20 May 2017
• Bossy spun his gold more off the rush, skating into shots, picking apart goalies victimized by his sleight-of-stick magic.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
• That a three-channel speaker system can throw a full-scale stereo image is a remarkable sonic sleight-of-hand.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2021
• By this point, readers may have also noted the primary sleight of hand at work in the case for arming Ukraine.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2017
• Without that budgeting sleight of hand, Cal football barely did better than break even last year.
  — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2017
• Reed-Brown performs sleight-of-hand tricks while walking among them in this circa 1896 house.
  — courant.com, 15 July 2019
• With that in mind know that a lot can (and very likely will) happen, but that doesn’t mean Washington fans shouldn’t be irked by this sleight.
  — Brian Pedersen, ajc, 8 Oct. 2017
• The Senate budget plan also employs a financial sleight of hand.
  — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 3 June 2017
• Everyone has to consider that this is not just a constitutional sleight-of-hand.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
• But in terms of offensive misdirection or sleight-of-hand, Alabama seems to have dialed it back a bit.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 22 Nov. 2022
• One of the men handed over a board, placed three cards on top and began playing three-card monte, a sleight of hand con game in which the player tries to keep track of a certain card.
  — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
• Almighty skating and sleight-of-hand playmaking can, in an instant, give way to manhandling opposing players.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• But if only a small number of theatergoers witness the sleight-of-hand, has the magic really happened?
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2022
• For those intent on stopping cybercriminals, all the potential schemes and sleights must be made plain to neutralize them.
  — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec. 2017
• Many seemingly complex magic tricks rely on a simple mix of old-fashioned sleight-of-hand and misdirection.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
• On Brighten, the sleight-of-hand man does his most robustly soulful singing and playing, with the whole band kicking in for an all-together-now groove.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022