Example sentences for: clever

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

  • Simultaneously inspired and contrived, clever and crude."

  • Who, asks clever interviewer Tim Russert, is next in line for the Oval Office?

  • What there is in the way of stylized leaps, spins, and balancing on the toes comes out as the natural expression of exceptionally graceful human beings and not as a demonstration of what some clever windup toys can do.

  • Bunter's long-awaited postal order was a joke every boy understood, but Frank Richards was clever enough to adapt his use of schoolboy slang to the changed times.

  • A great title can be nobly direct (Nabokov's Speak, Memory ; Jack Paar's I Kid You Not ), bitterly cryptic (Josef von Sternberg's Fun in a Chinese Laundry ; Adolf Loos' Nevertheless ), or too clever by half ( Roman by Polanski).


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