forte

Example Sentences

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"You could see it coming. Elegance was never his forte," someone close to the top said.

From BBC

Speaking unvarnished truth about crime and its socioeconomic underpinnings had long been a forte of Black scholars, many of them based at Howard University, which borders Shaw to the north.

From Washington Post

Worse still, performative politics — the showy stunt, the devastating Tweet, the viral moment that have become the campaigner’s coin of the realm — has never been Feinstein’s forte.

From Los Angeles Times

There is one point where the string lines are marked triple forte, yet crescendo from there, accents spiking the way.

From New York Times

She's a performer whose forte is her off-the-cuff reactions that informs her delivery of lines like, "Listen: I know Dr. King went down in history, but this is not how you show it."

From Salon