Example sentences for: gifted

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

  • Newcomer Freddie Muniz plays Malcolm, a gifted 9-year-old, and is "that rare thing, an uncloying child actor" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). Many critics compare the show to Fox's best-known half-hour comedy, The Simpsons , saying it shares the same sense of the absurd (mother shaves father's back at the breakfast table, etc.) with an "undercurrent of love and gentle support" (Ramin Zahed, Variety ). (Click here to find out more about the show at Fox's official site.)

  • After all, Harry is not only a 10-year-old celebrity, and a favorite with the Hogwarts faculty (Snape excepted); he's a gifted athlete on the Quidditch pitch (how to explain?

  • The saying Traduttore traditore expresses the idea that no matter how gifted a translator is, he can never truly convey the subtle nuances and meanings behind the original language, the many-layered associations and allusions that the words in the original connote.

  • These examples may serve to confirm what we all already suspect, that there is a spectrum of natural ability for language, with the gifted at one end--presumably, our poets, writers, lawyers, politicians, teachers, and so forth--and the less gifted at the other.

  • Unconventionally gifted kids, who didn't get top grades in high school or who don't have perfect SAT scores, stand a better chance than they do elsewhere of getting in--and of being presented with the highest level of intellectual challenge.


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