Sample Sentences forresourceful (auto-selected)
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"And lastly, O my resourceful son," said the Tisroc, "you have made clear how all this might give you the barbarian woman, but not how it helps me to the over-throwing of Narnia." (source)resourceful = good at solving problems
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They met at the cinema, during the intermission of a film about a resourceful princess.† (source)
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She's always been resourceful, and might have found a good place.† (source)
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Elias is resourceful—he might still find a way to avoid death.† (source)
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Freckles, I think; irreverent, resourceful.† (source)
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But he's particularly resourceful and a good problem-solver.† (source)
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Some people in his situation could have figured out a way to walk out or maybe winter over, but to do that, you'd have to be extremely resourceful.† (source)
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Americans really did have a kind of uncommon resourcefulness when pressed.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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But it was certainly true, as Groundsel said, that no one ever found his body, so it may perhaps be that, after all, that extraordinary rabbit really did wander away to live his fierce life somewhere else and to defy the elil as resourcefully as ever.† (source)
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She saw that he was nervous and bashful and decidedly unresourceful in her presence and it pleased her to think that she could thus befuddle and embarrass him so much.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unresourceful means not and reverses the meaning of resourceful. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair.† (source)
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I may be smaller naturally, but overall my family's resourcefulness has given me an edge in that area.† (source)
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They had too many ways, they were too resourceful—and when they did it too well, whatever their chosen method, I was in no position to refuse.† (source)
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Bobby Lee Cook, for all his guile and resourcefulness, had not been able to free himself from a conflict in court dates.† (source)
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Confident that he was clever, resourceful, and bold enough to escape any predicament, he was almost incapable of discouragement.† (source)
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He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American — that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.† (source)
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