Sample Sentences for
ingenuity
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    A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good.  (source)
    ingenuity = the ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
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    I had to laugh too, though I'd nearly exhausted my ingenuity on the topic of chatterboxes.  (source)
    ingenuity = cleverness
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    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)
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    Before, whenever we were out of food, Dad was always there, full of ideas and ingenuity.  (source)
    ingenuity = ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
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    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)
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    Get the Hong Kong investors who are willing to sink some bucks into American ingenuity.  (source)
    ingenuity = cleverness
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    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)
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    Happily, I soon fell into some mud, from which it took a bit of ingenuity to free myself.  (source)
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    Catherine's ingenuities were indefinite, and we are not called upon to expose their hollowness.†  (source)
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    The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast.  (source)
    ingenuity = ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
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    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)
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    But if you have all three advantages, on top of a good dose of ingenuity and drive, then that's an unstoppable combination.  (source)
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    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)
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