With skill

Usage examples of deftly.

For once in her life, she could think of nothing at all to say as Adonis laid his trident aside and deftly removed the ropes binding her wrists and ankles.

Stan told Bhagat, deftly changing the subject to the reason for his visit.

Hoichi donned his sandals, took his biwa, and went away with the stranger, who guided him deftly, but obliged him to walk very fast.

His great hands deftly moved the dials, to bring it into coincidence with the tri-crossed hairs in the view-plate.

Then, when his trembling fingers were slow at divesting him of his own garments, she whisked off his djellaba as deftly as she had removed the bird cage cover.

I had deftly extracted some items of information in the course of conversation, and filling up the rest according to the laws of probability and dressing up the whole in astrological diction, I was pronounced to be a seer, and no doubts were cast on my skill.

Then he deftly collected three short glasses, which he quickly distributed as if he were dealing cards.

When her hands closed above his eyes, he stooped and caught up Miss Cook in his arms, turning her deftly until she sat in the position that Cathy preferred, but without ensheathment.

While uttering a gay compliment, he deftly secured for his mount a feed of corn which was much in excess of that usually provided for the money.

Sheckley deftly balances a comedy of intercultural misunderstandings against a genuinely moving tale of a man who finds the world changing in ways he can never quite grasp.

Doc showed as he worked with microfibers and contacts, deftly repairing broken circuits where possible and looping around them when the damage was too severe.

With a jab of his heels he moved the Palouse to one side in case Cain should miss and the knife should fall back down, but Cain deftly caught it by the dull side of the blade.

Pinching his lips together and blinking once again, Dorian backed off two steps and watched as Picardy deftly inserted the tip of the sharp at sound-point eleven.

Fields had deftly redirected the conversation toward lighter fare, so the poet walked into a round of laughter produced by an anecdote jointly retold by Holmes and Lowell.

A black plastic body bag lay on the stretcher, and one of the men deftly unzipped it and folded it open before glancing expectantly at Sacher, who spoke to them in German and gestured toward the bathroom door.