Knack Sentence Examples

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  • I have a knack for spotting traitors.

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  • She's also got a knack for weapons.

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  • Her cousin can Travel and has a knack for weapons she's hiding from Jessi.

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  • He was also a favorite with Darian's advisors and court, with a knack for connecting with everyone, even the servants.

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  • A knack for organization is a key talent.

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  • My second oldest brother, who is nine years older than me, always had the happy knack of being able to bustle me.

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  • With a knack for creating camera ready faces, Max Factor coined the phrase "make up", as in, to make up a woman's face.

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  • He also had the knack of scoring goals at crucial times.

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  • I play better than I used to, but I've a knack for losing the endgame.

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  • As a teenager, Damon attended the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School where he was adored by girls for his smile and praised by his high school drama teacher for having more than a knack for acting.

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  • Following that she played a woman with a knack for seducing baseball players in Bull Durham (thus began her run of playing sultry older women).

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  • Their knack for good riffs, simple melodies, good rhythm and passionate delivery attracts a devoted and constantly growing fan-base.

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  • The knack is in retaining the intimate and comfy feel without feeling crowded or cramped.

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  • The TVs should help, but gym staff often have an uncanny knack for offering up exciting choices like a documentary about garden slugs, a badly dubbed 70s drama from Poland, or the world cricket championships.

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  • With practice, you'll soon have the knack for tying a Windsor knot that a Duke would admire.

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  • Since computer A.I. in fighting games is never up to standards as playing a real human, using the Wi-Fi can net you some hardcore Darkstalkers fans with a knack for being better than you.

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  • Do you have a knack for the written word?

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  • They have the knack for delivering excellent examples of California's finest varietals.

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  • Call around local salons and find out if there is a stylist on board with curly hair or whom has a knack with the texture.

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  • Harry Potter casting agents seems to have a knack for finding the perfect actor.

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  • Good old Jerome has a knack for making enemies.

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  • Thomas Corneille himself, who to his undoubted talents united wonderful facility, untiring industry, and (gift valuable above all others to the playwright) an extraordinary knack of hitting the public fancy, died, notwithstanding his simple tastes, "as poor as Job."

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  • Valuing his friendship, she had developed a knack for turning the conversation on a less perilous course.

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  • Just recalling how dangerous a female Guardian warrior with a knack for manipulating others can be.

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  • They are allowed to gossip about everything, and the writers have the knack of making the merest trifles seem amusing.

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  • Terry West also displays a fine knack for composition, most of the camera shots are quite exquisite.

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  • Had they lost the knack of fishing during their years with the Messiah?

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  • Others just had not got the knack, the seamen's eye.

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  • She developed the happy knack of putting people at their ease.

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  • He's got an uncanny knack of making runs.

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  • They display an unerring knack of choosing other people's songs and making them their own.

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  • The authors have a real knack for entertainingly discussing a subject.

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  • I spent ages then deciding which little glass nick knack to purchase with the their lines of colored sand.

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  • He also showed that he hadn't lost his knack for gentle humor that elicits laughter and groans in equal measure.

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  • She is also sly and sneaky with a knack for slipping in and out of places unnoticed.

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  • She also possesses the almost spooky knack of inhabiting their minds.

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  • He has a knack for making a simple, cute song more substantial by throwing in a clever, little twist or two.

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  • He had the almost unfailing knack of getting at things that mattered.

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  • Although there are some children who seem to have a natural knack for learning how to play guitar on their own, you may want to spring for some type of lessons to accompany the guitar.

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  • They have a knack for communicating with humans in "meow-ese" that many other breeds simply don't possess.

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  • Eye makeup application is an art form, as anyone with a knack for creating a glamorous look can attest to.

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  • In addition, many passionate scrapbookers have managed to turn their knack for creating custom digital scrapbook supplies into profitable home-based businesses.

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  • Ink for inkjet printers is often so costly that downloading free patterns does not result in any real savings when compared to buying kits at stores, especially if you have a knack for finding them on sale.

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  • If you find you have a knack for chemistry and would like to pursue it in college and beyond, you will have several doors opened for you regarding future careers.

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  • Once you've mastered the knack of stocking your closet with trusty goods, you'll have a timeless wardrobe that will function in both a fashionable and classic sense.

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  • I also found that I had a knack for making friends and getting into relationships.

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  • Money clips can also be stylish; when you pull it out of your pocket, it shows you have great taste and a knack for style.

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  • Let's Make Candles - Let's Make Candles isn't as user-friendly as the above sites, but once you get a knack for making candles, you'll find lots of project ideas that are appropriate for beginners here.

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  • Those with a knack for sewing may consider undertaking the creation of an Easter costume, and select pattern manufacturers may have bunny costume patterns available.

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  • If you don't have a knack for putting on stage makeup or have a friend to help you, it may be easier to just buy one of the KISS licensed plastic masks.

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  • If you have a knack for making children laugh, you might consider learning how to write a joke book for kids.

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  • Poetry writers are highly creative and emotionally-observant people who have a knack for putting a modicum of words together to form powerful, resonant pieces.

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  • With over nine years in the fashion business, managing over 2 million dollars in sales, it's no wonder Van Zeeland has a knack for designing handbags women want to carry.

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  • With a knack for style a commitment to quality, CEO Mark Talucci and President Todd Elliott have been bringing hot handbag looks to the marketplace since 1994.

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  • Kids are notorious for losing things; from jackets to gloves, children seem to have a knack for forgetting and losing their personal property.

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  • Though not all Virgo males channel their perfectionism into housekeeping the way they do in their occupational affairs, don't think that they won't appreciate your knack for cleanliness.

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  • Certainly, human beings have a knack for intuition - or the processing of information quickly and without conscious thought.

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  • However, you will need to have a real passion for your topic and a knack for understanding what your readers want.

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  • Dr. Scholls shoes are great because of their trend-following knack, easy access and low price.

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  • Yoga has a knack for starting out as a simple exercise, but then becoming so much more to each individual.

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  • However, there's a knack to placement, similar to flower arranging.

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  • However, once you get the knack of how to make candles, you will find that it is really quite easy.

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  • For more experienced beaders who have a knack for wire work, Contemporary Bead and Wire Jewelry is a beautiful inspiration.

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  • You may find that you have a real knack for cooking and enjoy it as a creative outlet.

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  • The Europeans have a knack for class and sophistication, and it shows through even in their undergarments.

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  • Twelve years in the lingerie business have given Ms. Freddy Zappe a knack for finding lingerie that works.

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  • If you really enjoy the atmosphere and have a knack for sales, you may even decide you want to become a representative once you've seen it done.

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  • There is a knack for buying the right silicone bra and if it's your first time, you'll do well to get some help.

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  • He continued honing his parody songs, and in 1979, the same year he graduated college, he found successes with a parody of The Knack's My Sharona called My Bologna.

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  • It was the lead singer of The Knack who convinced Capital Records to give Yankovic a deal.

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  • Not only is Sean Combs extremely well-known around the globe and routinely surrounded by some of the most glamorous people in every industry, but Diddy has a knack for taking people's careers to the next level.

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  • During her training, she was invited to step in for the teacher one day, and discovered she had a knack for teaching and motivating people.

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  • Their first cost is great and they are dangerous for new men, as they require constant alertness, presence of mind, and a certain knack in using them.

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  • Lysias excels in vivid description; he has also a happy knack of marking the speaker's character by light touches.

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  • According to the duchess she had "a certain knack of sticking to what had been dictated to her to a degree often very disagreeable, and without the least sign of understanding or judgment."

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  • This darkly comedic crime thriller from director Anthony Hickox demonstates a knack for set pieces that doesn't carry over into his general storytelling.

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  • It ends with a list of danger signs to look out for to spot useless knick knack.

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  • Time and muscle, knack and touch, a trained eye and brain and an unlimited array of patterns hanging on fancy's walls, aided by a box of dry sand, pottery.

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  • If you've always had a knack for investigating, you may find your perfect fit with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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  • Having a happy knack of estimating character, especially when acquainted with the histories of the persons in question, the good pastor contrived to write a graphic and readable book, but one much inferior to Porta's or Aristotle's as a systematic treatise.

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  • Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts.

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