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. I consider him to be a clever fellow.
3. Betty is as clever as her brother Tom.
4. When I was young, I admired clever people.
5. I hesitate to describe him as really clever.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CLEVER
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)
1  When I was young, I admired clever people.
2  Whether she's clever or not is a matter of opinion.
3  Though he's not clever, he's a diligent worker and has often done well in the examinations.
4  Betty is as clever as her brother Tom.
5  The lawyer produced a clever defence of his client.
6  The lawyer produced a clever defense of his client.
7  I consider him to be a clever fellow.
8  People consider foxes as clever but sly animals.
9  I hesitate to describe him as really clever.
10  The building relies on clever design rather than on ornament for its impressive effect.
11  Her clever opening gambit gave her an early advantage.
12  He's a classic example of a kid who's clever but lazy.
13  I don't claim to be an expert and I certainly don't want to be a clever Dick.
14  This figure is reached by a fiendishly clever equation.
15  There are plenty of fish in the river, and good baits on my line, but the fish are getting clever and refuse to rise to the bait today.