Sample Sentences foringenious (editor-reviewed)
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It is an ingenious solution to the problem. It is as reliable as it is easy.ingenious = showing cleverness and originality
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The first person to put wheels on a suitcase had an ingenious idea.ingenious = clever and original
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It was ingenious and finally, I saw, all wise. (source)ingenious = clever (showing inventiveness and skill)
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...they invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once, (source)ingenious = inventive
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Let's see how ingenious you are. (source)ingenious = inventive and skillful
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Human beings are remarkably ingenious, (source)
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When a fox wants to den up, he will use ingenious tricks to throw off the hounds. (source)ingenious = inventive and skillful
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It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours ... so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out (source)ingeniously = skillfully and showing inventiveness
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They are an ingenious people, (source)ingenious = inventive and skilled
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They were ingeniously constructed: double soles from shower shoes were bound together and then completely covered in pink and white cotton yarn crocheted into intricate designs.† (source)
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Mrs. Penniman desired to represent the ingenious Mr. Townsend as the hero. (source)ingenious = clever (inventive and skillful)
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The green neon sign outside ingeniously depicted the face of an oscilloscope tube, over which flowed an ever-changing dance of Lissajous figures.† (source)
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Ingenious, really, how many ways Muggles have found of getting along without magic.† (source)
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A long strip of wood advertising Pears' soap ingeniously hides their ankles from view, for modesty's sake.† (source)
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While Kit resorted to ingenious tricks, Mercy possessed the patience.† (source)
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The plague, the famine, the earthquake, the tempest were too spasmodic in their action; the tiger and crocodile were too easily satiated and not cruel enough: something more constantly, more ruthlessly, more ingeniously destructive was needed; and that something was Man, the inventor of the rack, the stake, the gallows, and the electrocutor; of the sword and gun; above all, of justice, duty, patriotism and all the other isms by which even those who are clever enough to be humanely disposed are persuaded to become the most destructive of all the destroyers.† (source)
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