How to Use smart in a Sentence

smart

1 of 3 adjective

• Poodles are said to be smart dogs.
• He gave her a smart answer.
• That was a smart investment.
• Maybe youse are smart enough to know what the hell that means.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2022
• Some of the polling shows the strategy is a smart play.
  — al, 17 July 2022
• That's true about the smartest people in the world, right?
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 8 June 2018
• To be sure, the promise of the smart garden is not new.
  — Mandy Behbehani, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2020
• Dress smart and bring the right tools and equipment with you.
  — Kristi Eaton, Chron, 12 Nov. 2021
• Gascón is smart enough not to let words come back to haunt him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2022
• Most of us are smart enough not to try to control the weather.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 24 Apr. 2021
• The show is smart enough to get away with baring its teeth more.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 5 May 2021
• The Browns will be smart with all of them to get them to the season healthy.
  — cleveland, 4 July 2021
• But what is so smart about a whip, and why should punch be pleased?
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2022
• The younger brother was smart enough not to mess with a jilted lover.
  — Nick Hoppe, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 June 2018
• And is Reggie even smart enough to pull all of this off?
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2019
• But this league has a lot of smart people and a lot of great players.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• So dumb guys go for dumb girls, and smart guys go for dumb girls?
  — Sauleha Kamal, The Atlantic, 12 June 2018
• Walter was too smart, and the ship was full of dumbbells.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• But Swift is smart enough to let her fans in on that, too.
  — Andy Hermann, Los Angeles Magazine, 21 May 2018
• This was smart, and the Jazz did struggle with it at first.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• And that's a very smart way to protect your health, for now and in the future.
  — Lisa Bain, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2023
• With that in mind, here are six savvy steps to invite right and host smart.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2020
• Maybe a half marathon on pavement wasn’t that smart of an idea?
  — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 26 Sep. 2022
• There's a lot of smart people that are trying to work it out.
  — The Courier-Journal, 20 July 2022
• Cassie: Did your smart home keep turning the lights on?
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 2 May 2023
• Trouble is most looters are smart enough to wear a mask.
  — cleveland, 14 June 2020
• Those who have met the pair describe them as smart and friendly.
  — Scott Morris, ProPublica, 30 June 2010
• Their work is smart as hell, but not afraid to laugh at itself.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• This is where home team pride and smart programming come in.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2022
• Joe Biden said poor kids can be just as smart as white kids.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2020

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smart

2 of 3 verb

• Her eyes were smarting from the smoke.
• My hands smarted from grabbing a branch bristling with sharp spines.
  — National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2019
• But Lyons, who was still smarting from the April e-mail, had had enough.
  — Frank Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
• Bogle was warned against the dangers of allocating money to smart beta funds.
  — Bloomberg.com, 12 June 2017
• Fear sharpened her wits, and the world shifted into focus as the smarting in her eyes faded.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Some, smarting from recent layoffs and pay cuts, felt the company was asking even more of them.
  — Mike Rogoway | [e-mail], oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Democrats are still smarting from their January beat-down.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
• The highs here work because the MCU is a monument to smart casting; there’s warmth amid the chill.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
• The opposition, still smarting at its ejection from office, will pounce at the first sign of failure.
  — The Economist, 12 June 2019
• Pitchers tossed underhand and no one wore gloves yet, resulting in smarting pain in the hands of catchers and first basemen.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2023
• Nothing smarts quite like a sunburn, so use an ocean-friendly sunscreen that'll save your skin and protect the creatures in the water.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
• Losing can lead to winning, which eventually leads to smart and planned losing, which leads to winning again.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 17 July 2017
• Both parties are smarting from the general election results.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• Upgrade to smart home lighting with this starter kit, which includes four white and colour ambient bulbs and a Hue home hub to voice control your lights.
  — Fiona Tapp, CNN Underscored, 13 Oct. 2020
• The first of their bunch, not a few of them Southerners smarting from the Civil War, took on the task of erasing what the earth had been.
  — Mark Arax, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• Prime Day is one of the best times to snag steep discounts on tech products, from streaming devices to smart gadgets to wearable accessories.
  — Alex Warner, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2021
• Options range from simple bulbs that slot into regular fixtures to smart light strips that can be installed in unlikely spots.
  — Simon Hill, Wired, 15 Apr. 2021
• Lowe's: Hundreds of Cyber Week deals, from appliances and tools to smart home and bath.
  — Staff, CNN Underscored, 1 Dec. 2019
• Fans of the women’s team are still smarting over Trump’s earlier treatment of Rapinoe.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartzy, 7 July 2019
• Jose Mourinho was left smarting after his biggest league defeat in almost six years.
  — SI.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Why would smart people follow their leaders in unknown, possibly risky terrain, when even those leaders are unsure about the smartest way ahead?
  — Jean-Francois Cousin, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Back in the Norchester neighborhood, Daniel Rawson was smarting at his bad bet.
  — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
• Until then, Bloom, still smarting over recent events, had been cautious in her public statements.
  — Bryan Smith, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 June 2018
• Elodie is clearly still smarting from the rejection, especially since Zoey picked someone else to be her girlfriend.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• From Apple’s AirTags to smart home equipment, keep your family and friends up to date with the latest and greatest.
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2022
• New York City at the time was still smarting from a brush with bankruptcy, and the scrappy red-headed orphan was a welcome symbol of resilience.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Europe and Asia are still smarting over the U.S. having beaten them to the 4G finish line.
  — Robert M. McDowell, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• But the crackdown also left thousands of peaceful protesters choking on tear gas and many others smarting from pepper spray or injured by rubber bullets.
  — Mike Ives, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019
• That leaves Jimmy Fallon, still smarting from his Trump hair mussing, out in the Emmys cold.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
• Sunday's tweets suggested the president was still smarting over that implied criticism of him days earlier.
  — Laura King, latimes.com, 8 Oct. 2017

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smart

3 of 3 noun

• Will Trump have the smarts and guts to do the right thing?
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 12 Aug. 2017
• Europe has the smarts and the wealth and the market to be a tech leader.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2019
• Some of the smarts in the Siemens building are there for the workers.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• This little home hids its smarts in the most clever way.
  — Nena Farrell, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Language may be one of the best ways to demonstrate that kind of smarts.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 14 Sep. 2023
• Just try to use my smarts or a pump fake or double clutch.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2018
• The junior walk-on guard is the guy teammates said is the most book-smart on the team.
  — Fletcher Page, The Courier-Journal, 30 Oct. 2017
• That means games will be won on skill and smarts rather than surprise.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
• Stick tap for the Knights’ discipline and smarts on and off the ice.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
• She was wowed by his sweetness and his smarts, and by the setting.
  — Vance Muse, Houston Chronicle, 14 June 2019
• His looks got him work as a male model and his smarts helped him beat the odds at the local casinos.
  — CBS News, 10 Feb. 2018
• It’s packed full of smarts, as well as being a fount of worthwhile clicks.
  — Chris Stanford, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• Given that, the police should probably have had the smarts to back off.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
• But crows aren’t the only birds who have some serious smarts.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 31 Dec. 2019
• Crawford wins the fight and the argument with his quicksilver skillset and durable smarts.
  — Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
• Software, not hardware, is the source of speaker smarts.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
• That might be premature, as Tunisia has the smarts to slow the tempo of the game and cause trouble.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
• Growing up in the big city also made Nancy tough and street-smart.
  — Juan Ortega, www.feloniousflorida.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• The Chiefs, at least from my view, have handled this with smarts and planning.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 30 Jan. 2018
• That’ll mean playing smart based on field position and clock.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• And to have the presence of mind and the soccer smarts to make that play there ... very, very, very impressive.
  — Grant Wahl and Brian Straus, SI.com, 2 July 2018
• New York smart tells us that this situation and moment are not about the facts.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2021
• The women use their power over men, and their smarts, to fulfill both needs and desires.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• In fact, some of the smarts here are built into an app: the Google Search app used for the settings.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2017
• Read how the pop star’s net worth has soared through touring, album sales and business smarts.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Smart cars, smart homes, smart clothing—a whole lotta smart.
  — David Guston, Slate Magazine, 17 Oct. 2017
• Every red-blooded male wants to be the only macho man on site with the strength or the smarts to get the lid off a pickle jar.
  — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Her smarts, wit and sense of humor will always be with anyone who knew Deb.
  — courant.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• This demands a little bit more than combining smarts with speed.
  — Luke Johnson, nola.com, 28 June 2019
• The combination of his smarts and stickwork enabled him to make plays with good vision and a hard shot.
  — Glenn Graham, baltimoresun.com, 4 July 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024