How to Use technique in a Sentence

technique

noun
  • The players need to practice in order to improve their technique.
  • The ice-skaters will be judged on technique and creativity.
  • Now, as with all year-round techniques, there is a prime-time to fish a wacky rig, and to me, that’s the post-spawn.
    Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 9 May 2024
  • What's the best technique to use when massaging the scalp?
    Esme Benjamin, Glamour, 25 June 2024
  • From there, finish the length of your hair with a classic braid technique.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The effect is just cluttered, even more so in terms of showy technique.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The main step that requires a little more technique and time is the lemon curd filling.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Young met with his QB trainers, scoured over last year’s tape, and worked on his technique.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
  • He’s spent the past four years learning the finer points of the position and honing his technique.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Not much research is involved, and the technique is highly low-stakes.
    T. Dallas Smith, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Most everyone who saw it at the Paris Salon of 1865 despised it, for the subject or the technique or both.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
  • If scaled up in the coming years, biomass carbon removal and storage could be one of those techniques.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Daggers was one of the first British agents to adopt social media as a sales and branding tool, a technique that’s been common in the US for years.
    Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 28 May 2024
  • Using the crossfader and spinning the record backwards, a technique called breakbeat, creates a loop of the same sound, over and over.
    Artur Galocha, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Our kicking coach, Ben Jones, played at Purdue and is still working with Quinn on technique and all that stuff.
    Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2023
  • For a lesson in how to master the basic technique, The Tapping Solution has a good step-by-step guide.
    Georgia Day, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Our favorite technique is also the simplest: steady deep breaths.
    Vanessa Kroll Bennett, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • People who bit their nails seemed to benefit the most from the habit replacement technique.
    Theresa Tamkins, NBC News, 20 July 2023
  • The spa is famous on the island and mixes Eastern medicine with modern-day techniques.
    Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2024
  • The most traditional kitchen technique for trimming asparagus is to hold the stalk in the middle and near the bottom end and snap it.
    Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • How to Paint a Wall with Limewash Add richness, depth, and dimension to a room with this limewash wall paint technique.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The three-time All-Big 12 honoree is an average athlete with a high football IQ, and will have to win with technique and toughness in the pros.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Here’s why so many pastry chefs and bakers favor this technique.
    Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Next, the team used a technique called immunolabeling to find the light sensing opsin proteins within the skin.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One of the key innovative aspects of getting a hair transplant in Turkey is the use of the latest techniques.
    Kody Boye, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2024
  • The designer rose to the challenge, using by applying his printing technique to the thinnest glove leather.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Some of this year’s Showcase directors stand out for boldness of technique.
    Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
  • This recipe adapts the hops-roasting technique with something a little wilder—a ringneck pheasant.
    The Editors, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024
  • In reality, they've been painted using a technique called strié.
    Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 31 July 2024
  • In this hands-on class, learn essential techniques for designing stunning arrangements that add charm and character to any outdoor or indoor space.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 31 July 2024

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