7 sentences with 'skilfully'
Example sentences and phrases with the word skilfully and other words derived from it.
• « In 624, just two years after his arrival in Medina, Muhammad led a Muslim force against an army from Mecca, and then in 630 CE, he conquered Mecca, largely by skilfully negotiating with his former enemies there - he promised to make Mecca the centre of Islam, demand pilgrimage, and incorporate it into his growing kingdom. »
• « Klimt's paintings were all beautiful and skilfully executed, but also dark and disturbing (the originals were destroyed by the Nazis during their occupation of Austria - modernism was considered 'degenerate art' by the Nazi party). »
• « Ótzi wore a long tunic, made of pieces of goat and deerskin skilfully sewn together. Thin animal sinews were used as thread. In several places the tunic had crude patches of plaited grass. »
• « The head of the ancient axe found is made of almost pure copper, and skilfully mounted on an L-shaped yew handle. »
• « At the trial, the prosecutor skilfully guided Bobbie's testimony. Then he played on a tape recorder Bobbie's conversation with her daughter's alleged killer, whose voice came alive to turn against herself. Discrepancy after discrepancy arose when her recorded words were compared with what she said minutes after Deana's death. »
• « He skilfully used that perception to his advantage, presenting the bank problem as a struggle of ordinary people against a rapacious elite class that cared nothing for the public and pursued only its own selfish ends. »
• « Jackson skilfully exploited this racial hatred to engage the United States in a policy of ethnic cleansing, eradicating the Indian presence from the land to make way for white civilisation. »