How to Use practiced in a Sentence

practiced

adjective
  • He split the log with practiced skill.
  • Only a few of the dancers are practiced in traditional ballet.
  • Now, Lavrov is such a practiced liar, he's been doing this for decades.
    — NBC news, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Perhaps the show needs a director with a more practiced, lighter touch.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Handler proved herself a practiced hand, even if her jokes didn’t land at quite the same rate as Glaser’s.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The area was wild and uninhabited, but the bandits moved through it with practiced ease.
    — Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Erpenbeck, now fifty-four, is a practiced guide to her life, even when narrating from a shaky smartphone.
    — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 14 July 2021
  • These days, the Sikorsky brigade has settled into a practiced routine.
    — Carlotta Gall Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • With practiced ease, Gronkowski leapt and secured the catch for a 17-yard touchdown.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
  • Duncan Coles lops the head off a juvenile coconut tree with a practiced swing of his machete.
    — Kenneth R. Weiss, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2020
  • There’s a practiced sense of pace here, an easy deliberation that pairs well with the subject matter.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 27 July 2022
  • Here is a look at Christianity, the most practiced religion in the world.
    — CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • To the practiced eyes of some observers, there are obvious clues that AI was used to produce the video.
    — Edward Segal, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • In person, Rogers is amiable and a practiced campaigner, an easy presence.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024
  • In open play, Morocco held the Spanish at bay with a practiced expertise.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Among them was Pat Serwaa, who was sorting through a bale of leggings from London with practiced ease.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
  • Some of Grandma’s recipes take a practiced hand in the kitchen to master, but old-school dump cake recipes are literally foolproof.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The practiced Chern’s been a customer of Yesterday & Today from day one.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Those dishes require ingredients of the highest quality and the skill of a practiced hand.
    — Lela London, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • Inside, a few dozen crew members move through the rooms with practiced efficiency, managing cameras and lighting rigs.
    — Maneet Ahuja, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Ours was not a class of practiced chefs, but a delightful mix of seafood lovers, novices, couples, and individuals of all ages trying to learn something new.
    — Lela London, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • But in practiced hands, the trick shot can let a player seem to cover the entire court with relative ease, even in the most desperate situations.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018
  • Fortunately, Charlotte improves quickly, thanks in part to a salve that Mary applies with practiced skill.
    — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
  • For her fourth consecutive year as host, the comedian proved herself a practiced hand by delivering on this promise.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Craving the meatiest chunk of the lower leg, a Paleolithic butcher struck again and again with a sharp stone blade, removing flesh from bone with practiced skill.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • While Lanier gets sole screenplay credit, one suspects much improvisational input at work here from the practiced way the leads play off each other.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 28 July 2026
  • Not all of Silo’s crossover strengths — the creative bars, the practiced service, the sense of place — translated to Silo Prime.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Given his years on Breaking Bad, Cranston is a practiced hand at fleshing out the eccentric mind of the married man looking to shake himself out of his reverie.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
  • Miller-Idriss’s work requires making distinctions among groups—QAnon and the Boogaloo movement, for instance—that to a less practiced eye tend to scan as the same kind of crazy.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • With practiced ease, Chef Miguel Trinidad welcomed his guests — 42 curious diners, most of them strangers — and bid them to dig in before returning to his team in the kitchen.
    — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022

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