How to Use prodigy in a Sentence

prodigy

noun

• The Nashville prodigy has been a name to know in golf for a few years.
  — Brody Miller, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
• But in the end, the film isn't about a child prodigy who's good at poetry.
  — Annie Z. Yu, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• But simply winning is not enough for this prodigy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
• For his own part, Parsons wants to rush ahead and talk process, not prodigy.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
• Welles, who lost his parents at a young age, was a wunderkind, a child prodigy.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2021
• That 6-year-old would deserve to be marveled at as a prodigy.
  — David Kipen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• 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
• The boy had uncanny balance and a prodigy’s feel for the wind.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Give this to your favorite artistic prodigy and watch the adults dig into it as well.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2019
• Programs billed her as one of the greatest child prodigies since Mozart.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• Branding has long since siphoned away the passion of the train-yard prodigy.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Tennis, by form and tradition, is a sport of prodigies.
  — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
• For so long, McLaughlin has been viewed in the world of track and field as a prodigy.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2021
• No, the 39-year-old prodigy clearly is not scared, and give him credit for that.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• Caton has been singing since the age of two and grew up a child prodigy of gospel great, Timiney Figueroa.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
• Luk Kop didn’t seem to have the makings of a musical prodigy.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• 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 pressure of being a prodigy, from within and without, proved too much.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• Where did Grant Achatz, the chef and an owner of Next, find this prodigy?
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 2 June 2025
• Hans was a provocateur, not a prodigy—and certainly not a threat.
  — Ben Mezrich, Vanity Fair, 6 Apr. 2026
• For the 2025 tour, the then-13-year-old prodigy came back ready to take the stage.
  — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
• Now that Brandon’s in college, the one-time prodigy wants to be known as an adult performer.
  — Steve Rothaus, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
• And my wife [Megan Mullally] is a prodigy.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
• Moore was a child prodigy from Hawaii who grew up to be the youngest world champion surfer and a four-time world champ.
  — CBS News, 27 July 2021
• Instead, the teenage prodigy fell apart in the short program and stood in 17th after night one.
  — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022
• Liu, no longer a young prodigy taking orders from the adults around her, is making this comeback on her own terms.
  — Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
• Ivan, in his 20s, is a chess prodigy falling for a 36-year-old divorcee.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
• Alysa Liu was hailed as an ice skating prodigy from the young age of 5 and held out a promising future.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 17 Feb. 2026
• One mistake doesn’t mean anything for a musician, even a prodigy such as myself.
  — Literary Hub, 15 June 2026
• The film was scripted by Scott Frank and centered on a seven-year-old child prodigy.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024