How to Use talent in a Sentence

talent

noun
  • They sang a duet in the talent show.
  • She has a job that makes the most of her talents.
  • The team has recruited some of the best talent around.
  • The company is doing a talent search to find the right person for the job.
  • There are many good players on the team, but she's a special talent.
  • Her artistic talent has been obvious ever since she was a child.
  • The company has hired some expensive legal talent for the trial.
  • I have no musical talent.
  • His experience, skills, and talents make him perfectly suited for the job.
  • Dafna draws and loves to sing and has a talent for arts and crafts.
    NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The teams seem evenly matched from a talent standpoint.
    Rex Nelson, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • There’s a surge of young talent taking the blues in fresh directions.
    Joe Bonamassa, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Somehow, the scheme has turned Derwin James, a great talent, into just a guy.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Filling their shoes won’t be easy, but there’s still plenty of talent on the roster.
    Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This gives you an edge in recruiting and bringing in top talent.
    Kara Dennison, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Finding any kind of impact talent will be tough this late in the recruiting process.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Over the years, Gossett became a generational talent on the screen and stage.
    USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • From a talent perspective, there’s little question Smith can play in the NHL.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Wellesley enters the season ranked No. 1 in the Globe’s girls’ cross-country Top 20, thanks to a huge influx of young talent the past two years.
    Matty Wasserman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The talent and swagger and thrust of the Corvette flow from a philosophy that is very much different from the others.
    Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
  • So who exactly will be the next lottery talent to join Houston in June's draft?
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 17 May 2023
  • The Louisville coaches, McDermott said, were intrigued about the upside of a player with his size and talent.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Oklahoma City Thunder The Thunder is a team of the future with their talent, youth and future draft picks.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • The mission was to find the most incredible lineup of talent this world has ever seen.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2023
  • While Olympia appears to have inherited her mom's tennis talent, the 6-year-old isn't quite as big of a fan of the game as the rest of her family.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
  • But the league will only get better with better talent, and American players want to help the sport grow here, so some choose to stay home.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But such is life when a team is loaded with talent and short on experience.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • Some of the new talent on the Democratic side might, not long ago, have simply been Republicans.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • One of the pay TV’s most crucial concerns is to retain talent when most of its top directors make both movies and series.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Thicke’s oldest child’s musical talents are nothing new to the father of four.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023

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