strong suit
Example Sentences
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Straightforward storytelling was never the strong suit of the show, which relied very much on Mr. Murphy’s charisma and that of his co-stars, notably Sophie Rundle, who plays sister Ada Shelby.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
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
But the element of surprise has always been the film’s strong suit.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2025
Marching was not their strong suit, certainly not compared to the Germans.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
