How to Use competent in a Sentence

competent

adjective

• The defendant was declared competent to stand trial.
• Denver is competent again — nowhere near the dumpster fire standing on the opposite headline.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2024
• San Francisco's parks and views, a few very competent city agencies and the Phoenix mentality are all on the list.
  — Total Sf Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2022
• He was also ruled incompetent at a bench trial in 2019, but was found competent to stand trial last year.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2022
• Either of these competent and educated men, citizens of the world, might have been a natural successor.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• He was found incompetent to stand trial in June 2019 before being found competent the next month.
  — Holly Yan and Aaron Cooper, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
• As Odette, Carranza was competent if a little indistinct, and her Odile lacked dazzle.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2022
• Zegler is competent as Juliet, more like a teenager in a sitcom who has to decide what to wear on a date to the malt shop than a girl who has accidently fallen in love with her father’s enemy.
  — Trish Deitch, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
• Richardson is subject to an anti-doping program that is actually competent, designed and operated with the sole intention of keeping sport clean.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022
• Senate Bill 88 would allow mentally competent patients with less than six months to live to obtain a prescription from a doctor for a lethal dose of medication.
  — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• This guy is three years younger and a lot less competent.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
• Now healthy, Denver has the top seed, a competent roster and one of the best players in the world.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• More-competent contenders have claimed the issues Trump brought to the fore.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 25 July 2022
• Last week, the judge said Daybell had been made competent and the case could go forward.
  — CBS News, 19 Apr. 2022
• Despite the light weight, these are both competent reels.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• In July, the court found the boy competent, according to court records.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2023
• Positives: White is a competent run defender with the size and strength to set the edge.
  — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Miami still needs a competent one, but Smith can pick up some of the targets that would go to a No. 3.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
• A lot of soil monitors are more than competent at testing the pH of soil.
  — Karen Hugg, WIRED, 9 Nov. 2022
• Roberts was transferred back to the jail on Feb. 7 after he was found competent to stand trial on Jan. 31.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 May 2024
• Rebel Ridge manages to hit the low bar of being competent and watchable.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2024
• For what they’re asked to do, Smythe and Hill are certainly competent.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• Most of these items are best installed by a competent local shop.
  — Jack Baruth, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
• The son of Trone, now 19 years old, was charged with murder but was later deemed not competent to stand trial.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024
• But the judge ruled Michael was competent to stand trial and must remain behind bars.
  — CBS News, 22 Oct. 2022
• What emerged were two cars—the Z4 and the Supra—that are extremely competent in their own right, with marked differences.
  — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 27 Sep. 2022
• And in the two-by-two matrix of men and women being warm and not warm and competent and not competent.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
• And part of those resources are just having a competent staff around me, and a group of guys that are able to be culture enhancers.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 26 June 2024
• Some kids are ready to start shooting at a very early age, and some adults will never be competent with a firearm.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 25 May 2023
• Kate has always been a competent sailor and William’s pretty good too.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 July 2022

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024