What is "sleights of hand"

Usage examples of "sleights of hand".

Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and countless subtleties, to which the veteran whaleman is so often forced, none exceed that fine manoeuvre with the lance called pitchpoling.

Inside the bag are devices designed to deceive: sleights of hand, least likely suspects, and apparently impossible situations like locked rooms.

Of all the government sleights of hand, Stoll had to admit that that was the sneakiest.

In school, teachers like to explain what must be happening now, employing tortuous mathematics and magical sleights of hand.

Once it was hoped that it might be poisoned in the field, but she who was dispatched to accomplish it has lost sight of the seed now among the dead grass and broken clods, and for a few sleights of hand has been handed over to your Inquisitor for strict examination.

Their undeniable wonders -- doves from handkerchiefs, coins from empty pitchers, silk scarves from empty hands -- are achieved through exhaustive practice and well-tested misdirections and sleights of hand.

Should they enter a land where folk were not convinced, deceptions and sleights of hand created a climate of conviction.

I had been doing magic tricks and sleights of hand with it for so long, so unconsciously, that I hadn't dropped it or even fumbled it in years.