Example sentences for: brainy

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

  • As a junior editor at Vanity Fair , Clare started an affair with the managing editor, Donald Freeman, who was brainy, homely, and enthralled by her.

  • 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."

  • Prudie can only hope that, as a counterbalance, her personal qualities are "gorgeous, loving, brainy, witty, and rich."

  • In the last century the Russians, for reasons that no one now seems quite sure of, took the name of a London railway station, Vauxhall, and made it their generic word for all railroad stations: vagzal . In much the same way, the Japanese word for a fashionable cut suit, sebiro , is a corruption of Savile Row . More recently, the French borrowed the English slang words jerk and egghead but gave them largely contrary meanings--namely, an egghead in France is not a brainy person but a dimwit, while jerk is a term of praise for an accomplished dancer--though at least they respect the spellings.

  • Later, when Jack casts off the brainy lifestyle, he becomes a porn addict.


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