How to Use sleight in a Sentence

sleight

noun
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  • 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
  • The sleight-of-hand is just to get people into the theater.
    — Logan Hill, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2016
  • All of that Koretz sustained with a sleight-of-hand trick.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Through some magical sleight of hand — sleight of taste bud?
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yeah, there was a lot of practical sleight-of-hand magic that took place.
    — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
  • A rhetorical sleight of hand meant to trap the critic in a corner and to hide the speaker’s true intent.
    — Eddie S. Glaude, Time, 12 Aug. 2017
  • Maybe Kim Jong Un is really wily, and this whole missile thing is just sleight of hand.
    — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 20 May 2017
  • Reed-Brown performs sleight-of-hand tricks while walking among them in this circa 1896 house.
    — courant.com, 15 July 2019
  • Such sleight of hand can make even the most implausible causes stick.
    — Matthew Trammell, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2017
  • With satellite radio, this sleight of hand is even easier to pull off.
    — Ana Marie Cox, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2005
  • 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
  • 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
  • And while Pat Riley was able to add Butler in the void of salary-cap space through a series of trades, such sleight isn’t always feasible.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 29 May 2021
  • Critics, for some reason, now like to mock the visual sleight-of-hand that goes into a thriller like this one, as if the CGI involved were all too easy to see through.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Aug. 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
  • This marketing sleight-of-hand partially obscures the fact that the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus both cost $50 more than their predecessors did.
    — Mohanbir Sawhney, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The sleight-of-hand artist performs in this intimate Zoom show presented by the Irvine Barclay Theatre.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Mavs forward Dwight Powell got in the act with Carlisle and the two Globetrotters during a sleight-of-hand passing circle.
    — Jeff Caplan, star-telegram, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Whether that digital sleight-of-hand ranks as construction, damage or perhaps both is up to you.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022
  • Yet, by sleight of pen, these philosophy-laden pages remain light and graceful.
    — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Simply a bit of good old-fashioned cinematic sleight-of-hand.
    — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 5 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Senate budget plan also employs a financial sleight of hand.
    — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 3 June 2017
  • 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

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