Example sentences for: clever

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

  • First, note the clever use of the word "if" in the second sentence.

  • Leadership is about being clever, hard-working, and drawing the best work from a team.

  • In addition to being eminently readable, my super-sentence is characterized by two clever strokes: a clause within a phrase within phrase within a clause within a phrase in the first five words, and the distillation of the adverb clause into a two-word cluster, “when [he was] challenged,” instead of the previous three words, “more than I.” Not only are all the structures as concise as they can be, but, with the exception of the subject, Leadere , all nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are now replaced by phrases and clauses.

  • The particularly loopy metaphors in Thursday's question inspired many of you to suggest the same candidate for the role of amiable doofus in our national drama, a sort of Loki figure if that clever trickster were just a little less, well, clever.

  • Your writer went for a cheap, shocking joke instead of thinking of a clever analogy.


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