Sample sentences for INGENIOUS

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Definition

showing cleverness and originality

ingenious = showing cleverness and originality

ingenious = clever and original

an ingenious device
an ingenious press agent
...they invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once,
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit

ingenious = inventive

The life rafts were ingenious things, packed into small bundles in the ship's hull.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn

ingenious = showing cleverness and originality

Their departure, with the ingenious manner in which they and their sheep were hoisted over the mountains, was a splendid spectacle.
Voltaire -- Candide

ingenious = inventive and skillful

Ernest at length hit upon an ingenious plan.
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson

ingenious = showing cleverness and originality

The method of the theft was not less ingenious than bold.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter

ingenious = showing cleverness and originality

When a fox wants to den up, he will use ingenious tricks to throw off the hounds.
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree

ingenious = inventive and skillful

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
Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

ingeniously = skillfully and showing inventiveness

... when Mother realized that after she's dead, she won't be able to tell me what to wear anymore, she came up with this ingenious postmortem system.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

ingenious = showing cleverness and originality

"Yeah, very ingenious, Hermione."
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

ingenious = showing cleverness and originality

It was ingenious and finally, I saw, all wise.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies

ingenious = clever (showing inventiveness and skill)

He had something in reserve, some ingenious product of his counselor's wits that would overwhelm their scheme.
John Gardner -- Grendel

ingenious = showing cleverness and originality

ingenious = inventive and skillful

ingenious = inventive and skillful

ingenious = inventive and skilled

In the pickling of hams they had an ingenious apparatus, by which they saved time and increased the capacity of the
plant
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

ingenious = showing cleverness and originality

I thought about explaining to her my mother's ingenious method of ridding the house of roaches—cracker crumbs and marshmallow—but then I thought...
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

ingenious = showing cleverness and originality

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