ingenuity

in a sentence

Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

Before, whenever we were out of food, Dad was always there, full of ideas and ingenuity.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

He realized that a beaver had persistence, patience and ingenuity.  (source) Ben Mikaeslen, Touching Spirit Bear, 2001

Get the Hong Kong investors who are willing to sink some bucks into American ingenuity.  (source) Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1989

For it stands to reason that as Joseph's splendid financial ingenuities advantaged nobody but the king, the general public must have regarded him with a good deal of disfavor, whereas I had done my entire public a kindness in sparing the sun, and was popular by reason of it.†  (source) Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889

I had to laugh too, though I'd nearly exhausted my ingenuity on the topic of chatterboxes.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

He would sit in the confessional and hear the complicated dirty ingenuities which God's image had thought out, and God's image shook now, up and down on the mule's back, with the yellow teeth sticking out over the lower lip, and God's image did its despairing act of rebellion with Maria in the hut among the rats.†  (source) Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, 1940

Happily, I soon fell into some mud, from which it took a bit of ingenuity to free myself.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

This reflection set him to admiring, for the hundredth time, the shrewd ingenuities by which he had insured himself against detection—more, against even suspicion.†  (source) Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

From her pocket she drew three precious objects that had required some ingenuity to gather, a partly used copybook from her trunk, a small bottle of ink, and a quill pen.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

Broke, Padilla and I had supper at his house, a more empty house than the one we had just left; that at least had old carpets, old soft chairs, and doodad girls' ingenuities, whereas Padilla lived with some aged female relatives in a big railroad flat off Madison Street.†  (source) Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949

But if you have all three advantages, on top of a good dose of ingenuity and drive, then that's an unstoppable combination.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

Catherine's ingenuities were indefinite, and we are not called upon to expose their hollowness.†  (source) Henry James, Washington Square, 1880