Expert

Examples

• The average spectator today can see a defect in an exhibited film as quickly as an expert. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For a man so expert in most things of that kind, Bucket takes time to open the door and makes some noise too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The new plan worked with great success, and a little practice made expert marksmen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is curious and pertinent to note that a similar plebiscite taken by a technical journal among its expert readers had exactly the same result. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If you are an expert, your formed habits take care of the physical movements and leave your thoughts free to consider your topic. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He set himself, therefore, to become an expert in prince-craft. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I leave it to any expert in the world whether that is not the mark of his thumb. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The billiard expert is not satisfied unless the whole rail is changed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I therefore ask that you leave the entire matter in my hands until Monsieur Desquerc, our expert returns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He was an expert and efficient workman in whatever he undertook; and was, both from habit and principle, prompt and faithful. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The tarantula, like many other members of the spider family, is an expert in the making of burrows. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yet he need not be a specialist himself, if only he is expert in choosing experts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They were expert builders, and possessed the engineering skill to erect obelisks weighing hundreds of tons. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I had drawn several loads of sand to this point to jump on, and had become quite expert. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• An expert clerk could perforate such a tape at the rate of fifty to sixty words per minute. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The statesman acts in part as an intermediary between the experts and his constituency. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But, like ourselves, the rebels had become experts in repairing such damage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was no buying of foundry iron by analysis, no high carbon steels, no fancy tool steels--nor any efficiency experts with their stop watches and scientific speed-and-feed tables. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There were twenty-three other deductions which would be of more interest to experts than to you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yet he need not be a specialist himself, if only he is expert in choosing experts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• One instance was that the son of one of these experts was employed in the office, and when he was told to do anything would not do it, or would give an insolent reply. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You may not be aware that the deduction of a man's age from his writing is one which been has brought to considerable accuracy by experts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When we got to the point where we employed eighty of these experts they formed a union; and knowing it was impossible to manufacture lamps without them, they became very insolent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There the judges are face to face with the experts and other witnesses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Every conceivable phase of ingenuity that could be devised by technical experts was exercised in the attempt to show that Edison had accomplished nothing new. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This was made exceedingly simple, as they did not have the experts we had in New York to handle anything complicated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This was done by two structural experts; and not till he got their report as to ample factors of safety was Edison reassured as to this detail. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One of the incidents which caused a very great cheapening was that, when we started, one of the important processes had to be done by experts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Thus a more radical and irreconcilable disagreement between experts touching the same thing could hardly be found. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The unquestioned need for experts in politics is full of the very real danger that detailed preparation may give us a bureaucracy--a government by men divorced from human tradition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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