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.
• Byford lays out the case with the practiced cadence of a stump speech.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• In the practiced penmanship of the era, the names Spahn, Aaron, Torre and Mathews jumped out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• Their hands slide across the fabric with practiced rhythm.
  — Andrea Ball, USA TODAY, 24 June 2022
• His practiced plan has been to pull that rope and secure the gate once the beefalo is well inside.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• With practiced ease, Gronkowski leapt and secured the catch for a 17-yard touchdown.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• Perhaps the show needs a director with a more practiced, lighter touch.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2021
• The great John Kuntz gets to wear some of the more elaborate costumes — and early on in the show Kuntz snaps open a fan with practiced elan.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• Banks floated through the halls with the practiced touch of someone who had been around politics for a long time.
  — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• Like any practiced stage performer, Belichick has a go-to script for those kinds of tricky moments.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• Cook is tall and trim, with pale-blue eyes, and a practiced, confident bearing.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2022
• Others are in their prime, restaurants at their practiced peaks.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• The practiced Chern’s been a customer of Yesterday & Today from day one.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
• Here is a look at Christianity, the most practiced religion in the world.
  — CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
• It’s this kind of practiced optimism that keeps us coming back to CES year after year.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 15 Jan. 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
• Both drivers slipped into their cars with practiced form.
  — Bernard Mokam Gabriela Bhaskar, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• 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
• These days, the Sikorsky brigade has settled into a practiced routine.
  — Carlotta Gall Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• 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
• In open play, Morocco held the Spanish at bay with a practiced expertise.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Dec. 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
• 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
• There’s a practiced sense of pace here, an easy deliberation that pairs well with the subject matter.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 27 July 2022
• While there are many different threading methods, Dahiya says this is the most practiced technique.
  — Wendy Sy, Allure, 27 May 2022
• Whyte calmly began a practiced monologue on the vaccine.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 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
• Bobby Hill hurled sardines overhead with the practiced arm of a softball pitcher, their silver scales clinging to hair and arms and T-shirts as the anglers crowded the stern of the boat.
  — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• Two of Neff’s initial appointees had to step down because they hadn’t already practiced law in Texas for the requisite seven years.
  — Allie Morris, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024