How to Use prodigy in a Sentence

prodigy

noun

• The boy had uncanny balance and a prodigy’s feel for the wind.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Programs billed her as one of the greatest child prodigies since Mozart.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• Tutberidze shook her head and, at one point, stared at the ceiling as her prodigy flailed on the ice.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• No, the 39-year-old prodigy clearly is not scared, and give him credit for that.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• That’s merely a record, something that can be usurped in 30 or 40 years by the next prodigy that comes along.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
• Instead, the teenage prodigy fell apart in the short program and stood in 17th after night one.
  — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022
• Luk Kop didn’t seem to have the makings of a musical prodigy.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The man Charles de Vilmorin is a creative prodigy who is already among the world's greats.
  — Alexandre Marain, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2022
• Both books tell the story of a child prodigy who learned to take a licking as part of the family act.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• The film was scripted by Scott Frank and centered on a seven-year-old child prodigy.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
• At that age, everybody writes about you as like a prodigy.
  — Suzy Expositostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• There was talk of finding the child prodigy a new instrument.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Yet the prodigy grew up in a San Diego house where listening to rock and roll was forbidden.
  — Alan Paul, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• Such has been the life of Alyssa Thompson, the 18-year-old soccer prodigy from Harvard-Westlake.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• The child prodigy Philippa Duke Schuyler reads Plutarch on train trips, eats steaks raw, and writes poems in honor of her dolls.
  — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 26 June 2022
• Mark Zuckerberg was a software prodigy while in high school.
  — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• The plot concerns a rabbinic prodigy named Nahum, who falls in love with his father-in-law’s young wife and gets her pregnant.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• And a 10-year-old Venus Williams posed for a photo heralding her arrival as a tennis prodigy to watch.
  — John Russell, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
• The kid genius enjoyed many ups and downs as a child prodigy in '80s and '90s East Texas, but had the support of his family through it all.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 6 May 2024
• This prodigy, who has the weight of a nation on his shoulders, exudes joy and character for one so novice.
  — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Even as a child prodigy, Schumann was placed in the top tier of her contemporaries, both male and female.
  — Hartford Courant, 9 June 2022
• The next day, Mays drilled a single and a 400-foot triple to right-center field, signaling the true arrival of a baseball prodigy.
  — Dan Brown, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
• But the pop prodigy had his life marked by addiction and mental health struggles.
  — Toby Hershkowitz, ABC News, 3 May 2023
• But once he's gotten his footing, this little Elf is a prodigy.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 11 Nov. 2022
• The Padawan prodigy who would grow into a Jedi Master is, more than anything, faithful to a fault.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
• He’s coached by his wife, Tashi, a former tennis prodigy whose career was cut short by a knee injury.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024
• Martina Hingis, a prodigy from Switzerland, came up in the early days of the Williams sisters and ran Serena close for a while.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
• Neil Patrick Harris, who played the titular child prodigy in the popular '80s show, is now a proud father of two.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 28 May 2024
• Of course there is no turning back now, as stripping the prodigy of the shirt would do his confidence even further damage.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2022
• The youngest male championship winner and tennis prodigy Michael Chang is making his return to the spotlight.
  — Matthew Acosta, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Sep 2024