Proficient

//pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt//

"Proficient" in a Sentence (14 examples)

He is proficient in English.

Proficient in English, he is looked on as a good teacher.

The international situation had become so tense, it would require proficient diplomats to handle it with kid gloves.

We are looking for someone who is proficient in French.

If he is proficient in English, I'll employ him.

If he were proficient in English, I would hire him.

He is known as a proficient artist in his field.

He is proficient in both Spanish and Italian.

He is a proficient pianist.

He got very proficient in English in a few years.

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He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.

By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots, and make sliding nooses; and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient.

The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."

Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients?

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