CLEVER in a Sentence

Learn CLEVER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

226 example sentences for CLEVER, such as:

1. I thought it brilliantly clever.
2. We saw through his clever stratagem.
3. The clever girl bore off the first prize.
4. She's nowhere near as clever as her sister.
5. How clever he must be to devise such a devious plan!.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLEVER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
clever
 a.  showing inventiveness and skill
 a.  mentally quick and resourceful
Classic Sentence: (193 in 13 pages)
1  Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
2  Moses, who was Mr. Jones's especial pet, was a spy and a tale-bearer, but he was also a clever talker.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
3  But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
4  She would have been, he thought, a very clever woman, had she fixed her gaze.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
5  I thought it brilliantly clever.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
6  The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  Clifford was really clever at that slightly humorous analysis of people and motives which leaves everything in bits at the end.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  Anyhow he was blacksmith to the cavalry in Egypt for a time; always was connected with horses, a clever fellow that way.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
9  Connie realized that his so-called genius was just this: a perspicuous talent for personal gossip, clever and apparently detached.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  He began to experiment, and got a clever young fellow, who had proved brilliant in chemistry, to help him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  The house was not impregnable: he was as clever as burglars are.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  But he'd been a nice lad, a nice lad, had helped her a lot, so clever at making things clear to you.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  He was quite as clever as Sir Clifford: and always one for the women.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  I was supposed to be a clever sort of young fellow from Sheffield Grammar School, with a bit of French and German, very much up aloft.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
15  He was a very intelligent man: and alone in the army, as such a man is: a passionate man in his way: and a very clever officer.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  The clever girl bore off the first prize.
17  It was indeed a clever plan to entrap his opponent, but in the end he was hoist by his own petard.
18  People may be lured into buying tickets by clever advertising.
19  A clever lawyer can cozen the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
20  A clever lawyer should be able to trick the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
21  She's nowhere near as clever as her sister.
22  Thus, these clever devices are curious stillbirths in our genealogy of automation.
23  How clever he must be to devise such a devious plan!.
24  Although he is clever, he is backward in giving his views.
25  And the poor old stick used to cry out 'Oh you villains childs!' -- and then we sermonized her on the presumption of attempting to teach such clever blades as we were, when she was herself so ignorant.
26  A clever man persists through difficulties in the knowledge that nothing worthwhile is ever accomplished without effort.
27  We saw through his clever stratagem.
28  A large part of the treatment is made up of commonsense, clever insight based on experience.
29  So when people say I'm obsessed, which is a clever way of saying please shut up, I don't like your facts.
30  In basketball, he offsets his small size by his cleverness and speed.