Example sentences for: brainy

How can you use “brainy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There are the ambitious Slytherins, the brainy Ravenclaws, the "just and loyal" Hufflepuffs, and the house with all our heroes, Gryffindor, "where dwell the brave at heart."

  • The balloonists are adrenalin junkies, but brainy ones.

  • Something of an entanglement develops between the intelligent, artistically aware young girl and the painter, but the book is in no way a conventional romance; it's "a brainy novel whose passion is ideas" (Richard Eder, the New York Times ). (Click here to look at the titular painting.)

  • In The Bone Collector , the wily serial killer leaves clues for the brainy forensics expert, played by Denzel Washington--clues that amount to a forensics jigsaw puzzle.

  • The story of the travails of a brainy single Jewish female in New York is lauded as a "wry modern fable" (Merle Rubin, the Wall Street Journal ) that shows off Ozick's flair for Isaac Bashevis Singer-style magical realism.


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