Example sentences for: smarts

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

  • Who can shed tears for folk who are blessed with smarts, youth, leisure time, and moxie, and who own $2,000-plus Pentium computers?

  • "She's a time-traveling Manhattan Yankee in Plautus's forum, using her distinctive street smarts to find her way, both as a character and as a performer" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Goldberg's self-mocking approach is said to redeem the production from an otherwise overwrought book.

  • Nineteen-fifties noir diva Gloria Graham, an actress with a little-girl voice and bad-girl smarts, gave her quips an irresistible countercultural edge.

  • Good reviews for the first nonanimated feature film written and directed by Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill . "Bristling with shrewd observation, inspired humor and all-around smarts," says Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times . The subject is the soul-crushing monotony of life in a corporate cubicle, and how a few drones manage to shake things up.

  • South Park is a reminder of the great moments from the old Henry Beard/Doug Kenny National Lampoon , where the audacity and smarts still leave you tearing up helplessly when you try to explain what you love about the work months later.


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