smartness

Example Sentences

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Their side looked bowler-heavy with five seamers and two spinners, which proved ineffective as Bangladesh proved their smartness and adaptability to pace the chase perfectly.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2023

Then she acquired smartness, Lansbury reasoning that, as a successful woman, Jessica should dress the part.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2022

“I can’t measure her smartness, but she’s curious, and I think it’s the way of being smart,” said Maciej Ryszczuk, Swiatek’s fitness trainer and physiotherapist.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

“We have a vaccine for that smartness virus that’s been in the art world for the last fifty years.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

But I suppose if you’re partial to swallowing horseflies whole, it’s a pretty good sign that smartness ain’t one of the things you been ’specially blessed with.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis