strong suit

Example Sentences

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Academics are not your strong suit - your strengths lie elsewhere.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Yet works of high seriousness were never his strong suit, as his rambling and distressingly unfocused Eisenhower Memorial in Washington showed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Still, based solely on the error-prone heist — it’s been ages since pantyhose masks seemed so ridiculous — thievery isn’t this spoiled man’s strong suit either.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

In a cruel twist, the Ravens are horrible on defense, typically Baltimore’s strong suit, and not just because they had to replace five injured defensive starters with rookies last week.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2025

Which was just as well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs