knack

Example Sentences

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“Yes, she has a knack for that,” I say.

From Literature

At Stanford University, he developed a knack for networking his way into rooms with people who could help him—and impressing them once he got there.

From The Wall Street Journal

He quickly realised that he had a knack for spotting where players were going wrong, both technically and physically.

From BBC

Jazz haunts with debts owed to its creators, and has a knack for revivals, collectives, new venues in the old forms, and stalwart clubs revivified by benefactors and grant funding.

From Los Angeles Times

Moses Brown had already sunk a fortune into a failed cotton mill when he was introduced to Slater, a brash young Englishman with big promises and a knack for self-promotion.

From Barron's