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Usage examples of knack.

I have the knack of putting an end to an intrigue when it has ceased to amuse me, I have no hesitation in accepting your proposal.

He effectively excluded them beche wished to be taught by us, not volunteers- and as Dan had told me those many months ago, Stuart had an uncanny knack for getting to a person.

A hard worker with a knack for persuading or coercing those who worked under him into being the same, he had been made overseer within a year.

It was a knack Devall had inherited, increasing his worth three-fold since gaining the title.

Your lads are fine in a donnybrook, but none of them has the knack for sniffing around and finding out things.

The question was whether, like his departed chief, he lacked the knack of taking decisive action at the proper moment.

She did not want to experiment cycling near the village until she felt she had remastered the knack.

A low risker himself, he had a rare and endearing knack of treating everyone, low and middle risk, with the same degree of courtesy and friendliness.

I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.

Ed Bloom has had an amazing knack at seeing the unobvious in the past.

He was a naturally aggressive and overbearing man but Kaft had the knack of making him feel adolescent and unruly.

The squad leader remembered that Wilson had taken weeks to get used to talking on the radio and made a mental note that Perdue seemed to have a knack for it.

Insidious but necessary is the whorish knack a journalist must develop of suiting his pitch to the particular client.

It was an unusual experience, for she had always had the knack for getting women to open up, but Kitty was closed to the subject of what had gone on at the Albany courthouse.

There was a stratagem nicely calculated to get the best from the Castalia Invincibles, Caudell thought- but then, Lewis had always had that knack.