How to Use ingenuity in a Sentence

ingenuity

noun

• She showed amazing ingenuity in finding ways to cut costs.
• It will take considerable ingenuity to fix these problems.
• Think about the lo-fi ingenuity of the fake goal.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• Again, this is where ingenuity comes in and pays off.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2026
• Use your ingenuity and charm to get others to do things for you.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
• Our ingenuity will do the rest.
  — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2025
• That ingenuity has been both a blessing and curse.
  — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• With a little ingenuity, this can be the one and only dress you pack.
  — Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2024
• The joy of our food is not just about resilience or ingenuity with the enslaver’s scraps.
  — Brooke Obie, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021
• The play calling and design lacked ingenuity in this area of the field.
  — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
• Nothing pops for me; the sandwich feels weighed down by its own ingenuity.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
• The ingenuity and joy of the bleachers was being drowned out.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• They should be left alone to live, plan, work, and enjoy the results of their ingenuity.
  — Robertas Bakula, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
• Once the lots are sold, how clients get their whisky home—and past customs—can involve some ingenuity.
  — Time, 27 Dec. 2022
• For all their ingenuity, such devices were playthings for the rich.
  — National Geographic, 30 July 2020
• Also to feed you better than a restaurant with triple its airs and a third of its ingenuity.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2025
• The ingenuity didn’t stop there.
  — Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
• That's 25 patents and a whole lot of ingenuity in action.
  — New Atlas, 6 Jan. 2026
• He was impressed by the ingenuity of how Havens got to the right answer.
  — Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021
• Look for unique ways to approach work, and your peers will acknowledge you for your ingenuity.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
• Some of these ideas won't cost you anything, except for a little time and ingenuity!
  — Irene Richardson, Country Living, 10 May 2022
• This comes down to erring on the side of ingenuity, entrepreneurship and sheer hustle.
  — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 13 July 2023
• These provers, along with old-fashioned human ingenuity, knocked down the open questions one at a time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 June 2026
• Hartford — There are stories of courage and ingenuity to be shared.
  — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 26 Aug. 2022
• In the meantime, 2022 taught us that deals can still get done with some ingenuity.
  — Damian Garde, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• All the other challenges are harder, and many are not amenable to human ingenuity at this stage.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Because of human ingenuity, there will be new problems to solve, new laws to be written.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
• The Padres are in a far better spot to win because of the ingenuity Preller has flashed.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
• In fact, the epic scope of that fight grew as a result of some last-minute ingenuity from Tanigaki.
  — William Earl, Variety, 12 June 2026
• With no one to lean on for help, their success depends solely on their own ingenuity, skills, and will to survive.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023