Step with care and great tact And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left.    From LearnThat.org.  [Dr. Seuss.]

In fact, I got into trouble recently because of "dexterous"--or rather, because I told someone that a left-handed person can't technically be dexterous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferule & Fescue] Reference

The word for right is dexter, from which derives our word dexterous, meaning ` skillful, clever, or artful. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1] Reference

The work-droid can easily handle 20lb weights in Earth gravity, which is said to be well in excess of what other "dexterous" robots can manage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

` fail in a design '; literally, ` not sufficiently "dexterous,"' since the bowhand is usually the left. be wide at (on, of) the bowhand.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3] Reference

By the dexterous application of a knee or a shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

New Sestros would be impracticable were it not for the dexterous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

"He's pretty dexterous," jokes Jeffrey Nelson, a Verizon spokesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE POPE: TEXTING THE GOOD WORD] Reference

The lady, with a dexterous movement, came out of her resting-place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love at Paddington] Reference

He was sufficiently dexterous and skilful to heal the Gothic ruler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

Napoleon's dexterous fancy contrived to throw over the whole scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

Ayar Cachi was fierce and strong, and very dexterous with the sling.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

It was quite a dexterous performance, and after all, what was against it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

"We've never put a dexterous humanoid robot in space before," she told Space. com.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twittering NASA's New Robot] Reference

Some few little things she had made, for her fingers were both nimble and dexterous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

With a dexterous twist the intoxicated man cleared himself and plunged down the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

The libretto is one of the best which was ever written by the dexterous and fertile Scribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

'With a dexterous movement of his hand he sent the golden coins spinning in all directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Parliament, which are all printed, but was not very dexterous in making extemporary replies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)] Reference

Our hero caught it in the center, and by a dexterous twist wrenched it from the rascal's hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

A story of absorbing interest turning on a complicated plot worked out with dexterous craftsmanship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

It is a rest to be able to reverse the hands, so both should be equally dexterous in either position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

Children were employed in this mill, as they were found to be more dexterous in tying the broken ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

Bales was likewise very dexterous in imitating handwritings, and between 1576 and 1590 was employed by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Mama Huaco, who was very strong and dexterous, took two wands of gold and hurled them towards the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

By this dexterous stroke he gained a new and wealthy kingdom, and completely re-established his fortunes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

All great and high art is purchased by suffering -- it is not the mechanical product of dexterous craftsmanship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

Anderson proved so dexterous with his new technology that he got signed up to make a video for Habitat for Humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now At A Desktop Near You] Reference

Waterman, in this dexterous manner, escaped the painful duty of passing on a note for which he was in no way responsible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

This Ayar Cachi was so dexterous with a sling and so strong that with each shot he pulled down a mountain and filled up a ravine.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

But he was so surprisingly dexterous with his lips, and feet too, when he was in his cabin that I suppose I put them down to that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncanny Tales] Reference

Inca Yupanqui, who was very dexterous in fighting, was assisting in every part, giving orders, combating, and animating his troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

Who could ever forget the courtship scene, with Mr. Collins's ponderous declaration and dexterous withdrawal from Mr.. Bennet's clutches?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judy of York Hill] Reference

But upon this subject, she was as dexterous a special pleader as Neale, and as skilful in giving a false coloring to facts, as D'Aubigné.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference

By dexterous management he succeeded in doing this, and at the same time he ran a board underneath the bow of the boat as it was slightly raised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

There were many things those long, dexterous fingers got up to, not just video games, drawing and guitar playing, but what they got up to in bed at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defender] Reference