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sleight - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- hand: No sleight of hand required, the special pen does all the work for you!
- magic: His sleight of hand magic has won him numerous awards all over the country.
- mouth: Sleight of mouth Sleight of mouth is one of my favorite aspects of NLP.
- artist: This trick will make you look like a master sleight of hand artist!
- trick: Steven Dick's Testimonials " Some expertly timed sleight of hand tricks that truly sparkle.
- extraordinaire: Daryl - World-champion magician and sleight of hand artist extraordinaire brings you the finest methods for revealing previously selected cards.
Converse of object
- teach: As he teaches a particular routine, he also teaches each sleight, each move, the psychology, the proper attitude to take.
- perform: Alistair filmed the opening shots for the movie playing a soldier performing sleight of hand with ancient coins.
- learn: Learn the sleights taught and you will be able to do most of the card routines published in the last 100 years.
- require: This requires no sleight of hand, the mechanical credit card does all the work.
- involve: Mr Roughton's argument involves a subtle sleight of hand.
- use: Many on the loyal left were quietly hoping that the government would use a sleight of hand to deny MPs the chance to protest.
Adjective modifier
- complicated: It's not a video, it's a pretty complicated book, for a pretty complicated sleight.
- difficult: No gimmicks, no setups, no difficult sleight of hand.
- intellectual: In an impressive intellectual sleight of hand, the privateers blurred the rather important difference between the free market and democracy.
- basic: Many items are self working and nearly all the others require only basic sleight of hand.
- new: A good magic book can contain many great effects and often has many new sleights to learn.
- such: Such sleights of hand are only possible without knowledge of the prison's interior life.
Noun used with modifier
- coin: In all my 50 years in magic, I have never seen this coin sleight!
- card: The only card sleight I need to use for them is a false shuffle.
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