How to Use polymath in a Sentence

polymath

noun

• But outside of her role as a politician, Abrams is a polymath of sorts.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• Horowitz, aptly described on his website as a polymath, is that and more.
  — Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2018
• See a re-creation of the place where the famed polymath imagined and sketched his wonders.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2010
• In many ways, the life of a podcast polymath is way easier than that of a late-night host.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
• Cecil was indeed a polymath tastemaker of his time.
  — Felicity Carter, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• His status as an academic polymath can be traced back to his boyhood.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
• The geodesic dome is only the most famous work the polymath came up with.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• And there are details on her life with her third husband, the polymath George Cooper.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
• Xavier Louis-Jacques was a budding polymath whose life ended at the age of 19.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2021
• Georgia Tech Saad Bhamla is a polymath.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• To my mind, Philip Mansel should also make the cut as a contemporary polymath.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
• Alan Watts lived the rest of his life as a committed philosophical polymath.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2018
• Carmontelle was a creative polymath in the employ of the young, fun-lovin’ Duke of Chartres.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• The world ahead demands a new versatility, and thus, the broad range of skills and interests a polymath can bring.
  — Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
• Guitarist Rafiq Bhatia has always been something of a polymath.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 29 Mar. 2018
• Greek polymath Archimedes takes a bath and figures out how to calculate volume and density.
  — National Geographic, 23 May 2017
• In the past six years, the creative polymath Devonté Hynes has kept remarkably busy.
  — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• The hip-hop polymath received the honor after his decade-plus of wins and achievements in the rap space as a hitmaker and producer.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• The life of Enid Sales, a preservationist and all-around polymath, sounds almost too delightful to be true.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• With so many streaming services and studios and formats now, does everyone in Hollywood kind of need to be a polymath?
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
• The polymath Danchev is well-equipped to investigate Magritte’s singular mind.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• He’d been invited to a brainstorm convened by Nathan Myhrvold, a polymath inventor.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
• The new study is part of an international effort to find and sequence the polymath's DNA.
  — NBC News, 14 July 2021
• Jane Remover is a trans polymath producer and singer-songwriter with influences across rave, shoegaze, trap and beyond.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
• At its heart is a conception of truth put forward by the nineteenth-century polymath Charles Sanders Peirce.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• Last night on Instagram, the polymath poet, culture worker, and song stylist announced a new literary project.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
• Then again, the English polymath Robert Fludd had engraved a black square in a white border back in 1617.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• The artistic director of the entire project is the enigmatic polymath Philippe Starck.
  — Nick Remsen, CNN, 12 July 2022
• The British polymath Lewis Fry Richardson was the first to try his hand at using the laws of physics to model the weather system.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
• As someone who finds time to play with metro big bands in Virginia these days, the 48-year-old polymath is a pure musician who continues to keep his skills sharp.
  — Eric Diep, Billboard, 31 May 2022