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How to use competent in a sentence

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Some of them are able and competent, but the representative type is timid, cringy and conservative.
He still was not good but certainly competent enough to swim two lengths of this oversized pool without stopping.
She concedes that a review by a competent authority was required before the claimant could be considered for release.
The incest offenders were rated as being the most socially competent group, followed by child molesters.
A competent rigger can easily replace parachute lines sewn directly to the parachute.
These criteria are necessary for the learners to be linguistically competent and creative.
However, all but the most severe apraxic children, if given the appropriate therapy, will eventually be competent oral communicators.
There was the curious fact that whereas Hitler began as a competent strategist and ended as a rotten one, with Stalin it was the other way round.
As a teenage runaway, Leroy's writing talent was discovered by a competent therapist whose encouragement led him to publish.
Confidence of a competent economic team has kept the rupiah from falling amid strong corporate demand for the U.S. dollar.
Police officers are becoming more polite, attentive and competent, according to a new survey.
The patient must sign a written request in the presence of two witnesses attesting that the patient is competent and acting voluntarily.
Not that I have ever felt 100 percent competent in the writing business, where one day's success augurs nothing at all for the next.
Most importantly, he is also a very competent member of a trawler's crew, capable of gutting the fish fast enough to keep the packers happy.
Finally, it should be noted that it is not irrelevant to cite an authority to support a claim one is not competent to judge.
You need to be able to show you were as skillful and competent with a gun as the average cop.
We assume that we have to be completely competent at all times, or we automatically conclude that we are hopelessly incompetent.
It was a perfectly competent but fairly ordinary magret with a parmentier of confit and a cassis sauce.
Tennyson's epic Charge of the Light Brigade was really just McGonagall with a competent rhyme scheme and effective scansion!
And so in fact, I think, that means we must be managerially competent to stop it.
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