Sentences with ability
a·bil·i·ty
A a - The public never had faith in his ability to handle the job.
- Her drama teacher spotted her ability.
- Despite having more information at our fingertips than any generation before, there is little evidence that our ability to make good.
- Of the 500000 Australian entrants, only about 30 earn medals, chosen for their outstanding ability in maths in their region and overall.
- The ability to cope with a problem
- A man of ability
- This ability to lead change in highly complex and politically charged.
- Eade said Hall's ability to pressure the Sydney defence yesterday was as important as his five goals and four points.
- This phone has the ability to have its software upgraded wirelessly. This wood has the ability to fight off insects, fungus, and mold for a considerable time.
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
- Do not confuse ability with capability and capacity. You often use ability to say that someone can do something well. He had remarkable ability as a musician. ...the ability to bear hardship. A person's capability is the amount of work they can do and how well they can do it. ...a job that was beyond the capability of one man. ...the director's ideas of the capability of the actor. If someone has a particular capacity, a capacity for something, or a capacity to do something, they have the qualities required to do it. Capacity is a more formal word than ability. ...their capacity for hard work. ...his capacity to see the other person's point of view.
- They are persons of ability, who will go far in life. She has an uncanny ability to defuse conflict.
- The ability to sing well.
- Composing music is beyond his abilities.