Her gums had withered, exposing snaggly yellow teeth which looked as though they'd been stuck in clay by an inexpert hand.

Entire trees, not an asset frivolously uprooted in the Bush, had been felled across the track, trunks splintered by an inexpert but indisputably thorough hand.

There was a low mutter of comment as Karli emerged behind him, gripping in inexpert hands the sword he had been given.

The edge turned as it connected, still gripped in inexpert hands, and the dog seized Karli's wrist in its jaws.

The thought of the chaos that would shortly result at such inexpert hands gave me a perverse delight.

Sore experience on the Debenham house made him very aware of how easily original details can be lost in inexpert hands.

Her dark hair, carefully trimmed by an inexpert, loving hand, flopped in her face.

Elizabeth looked all too ready to try to take things into her own, inexpert hands.

Yet note the inexpert hand in which it is written and the childishly simple syntax.

He shook the sword in his inexpert hand.