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How to use gifted in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Gifted means endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities. Example: “Although he was a gifted musician, he was a plumber by trade and never played music professionally.”

Examples of gifted by meaning

adjectiveEndowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities.

  • a gifted artist
  • a school for gifted children

nounA person who has special abilities or unusually great intellect.

  • The belief prevailed that gifted students were withdrawn, scared, rejected subjects who were more to be pitied than emulated.1964, William Kirtley Durr, The Gifted Student, page 37

More sentences with gifted

  • Although he was a gifted musician, he was a plumber by trade and never played music professionally.From the entry by trade
  • A gifted pupil might sometimes need to be coached privately about avoiding presenting themself as a handwaver.From the entry handwaver
  • Having autism is merely one form of neurodifference; being gifted and talented is another form of neurodifference.From the entry neurodifference
  • His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement.From the entry ring
  • Although she is technically gifted, her piano playing lacks passion.From the entry technically
  • The statistics on gifted children were presented agewise and genderwise.From the entry genderwise
  • She gifted me a Budai on my birthday.From the entry Budai
  • Having autism is merely one way of being neurodifferent; being gifted and talented is also a way of being neurodifferent.From the entry neurodifferent
  • Tragic, too, is the gradual deskilling of teachers, loss of excitement about the profession, and loss of gifted teachers to other pursuits.From the entry deskill
  • Ever since she was placed in the gifted program, she's become so high and mighty that no one wants to be near her.From the entry high and mighty
  • Cloti and Clerith shippers have gifted us with sultry fanfic, flashy video edits, and cute art.2024 May 16, Ana Diaz, “Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth set the fandom back 20 years”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2024. From the entry Clerith
  • For Secret Santa two years before, she had gifted him a bottle of calamine lotion.2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry calamine
  • No matter how mechanically gifted you are, it can't help ameliorate tilt.2019 October 15, Hawken Miller, “How to quickly climb the League of Legends ranked ladder”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry tilt
  • He is a gifted conversationalist, thinks quickly, and has thought through what it is that he wants.2011, Janice Witt Smith, Leadership GPS: Roadmap to Become a Leader for Life. From the entry out argue
  • Ono Komachi was a prominent and gifted poet in her day.2010, The British Tradition (Prentice Hall Literature), Michigan teacher’s edition, volume 2, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 804. From the entry entendre
  • But he could find and sign gifted ballplayers in places the Yankees ignored.2002, Scott Simon, chapter 2, in Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, page 29. From the entry outscout
  • But the overall effect is flimsy and insubstantial, a gifted writer punching well below his weight.2001 September 29, “For men who should know better”, in The Telegraph, UK, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2013. From the entry punch below one's weight
  • To the degree we have Jesus within us, we are all gifted to be a Mother Teresa.1979, Mary Jane Linn, Matthew Linn, Dennis Linn, Healing the Dying: Releasing People to Die, page 1. From the entry Mother Teresa
  • It gifted the gab and master-minded the machinations that materialized them.1962 June, Lt. Col. Forrest K. Kleinman, United States Army Combat Forces Journal, Volume 12, volume 12, Association of the United States…. From the entry unbaffleable
  • The shell-fish Donax deltoideus, commonly called ‘ugari’ in Southern Queensland, seem gifted with intellect or reasoning powers.1917 August 16, The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W.: William Macleod for The Bulletin Newspaper Co. Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22, column 4. From the entry ugari
  • Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and one of the most gifted conservative polemicists of his generation.2023 February 10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2023. From the entry Christopher
  • Since I was gifted with the skills to cook, I volunteered to help out in the kitchen and do the marketing.2022 May 14, Fr. Roger Solis, SVD, The Word in Other Words, University of San Carlos. From the entry marketing
  • While it is generally admitted that Leonardo was hugely gifted, the modern tendency to arrogant 'epochism' seeks to undermine his achievements.2020, Clive Prince, Lynn Picknett, The Templar Revelation, page 26. From the entry epochism
  • You can be decent and gifted at the same time.2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen). From the entry binary
  • Lu had skipped second grade and found herself at the gifted school by the time she entered fifth grade.2014, J Santiago, Lex and Lu. From the entry Harvard
  • Chelsea threw away two points when substitute Salomon Kalou gifted Valencia a penalty five minutes from time with a needless handball.2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport. From the entry gift
  • Marx was primarily a propagandist, a polemicist, a gifted sloganizer.2007, Dean Lipton, "The Man Who Answered Marx," in Free Market Economics: A Reader (Bettina Bien Greaves, ed.), p. 219 (Google preview). From the entry sloganizer
  • Supercompetent, superconfident and supercritical, Schmidt is a gifted orator whose acerbic wit earned him the nickname "Schmidt the Lip."1986 September 22, “West Germany: Last Taunts From the Lip”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2021, retrieved 25 Apr 2014. From the entry acerbic
  • The scene was neighboring Sweden-Finland, which during the Counter Reformation era was ruled by Gustav Vasa’s gifted but somewhat erratic sons.1974, Marvin R. O’Connell, The Counter Reformation, 1559–1610, page 220. From the entry Counter Reformation
  • "Is it not enough that you have gifted Alia Haste Moguchi with a phallus and renamed her Faust?1957, Guy Bolton, Child of Fortune: A Play in Three Acts. Adoped from "Wings of the Dove", Norman Spinrad, page 177. From the entry wong
  • Perhaps it was by virtue of some sixth sense that men born for unlawful occupations may be gifted with.1919, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], →OCLC. From the entry sixth sense
  • Wilson — who didn’t surf — became one of pop’s most gifted and idiosyncratic studio auteurs, crafting complex and innovative productions that awed his peers.2025 June 11, Ben Sisario, “Brian Wilson, Songwriter and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry auteur
  • I will continue to support differentiated learning experiences for all of Tumwater students to include those with learning disabilities and our gifted and talented.2025 August 2, Ann Duan, “Primary Primer: 3 questions for Tumwater School Board candidates”, in The Olympian, archived from the original…. From the entry Tumwater
  • Amanda Dowhy is the chair of the SD 62 school board and says the school’s name was gifted to the district by the SC’IȺNEW Nation.2025 August 27, “New B.C. elementary school will ease pressure on district”, in CTV News. From the entry SC'IȺNEW̱
  • For example, African tradition believed that children born en caul (fully enclosed in the amniotic sac) were gifted with second sight into the spiritual world.2021, Kimberly C. Harper, “Black Midwives and Reclaiming Choice”, in The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America: Only White Women Get…. From the entry en caul
  • Her pretty face, volumptuous body, and ultra feminine mannerisms belie her intellect, which makes her doubly gifted in the world of fashion and career.2018, Marie Woodruff, So You Want to Be a Haute Couture Fashionista?, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry volumptuous
  • It is also possible to remain underchallenged if the learner's measured ability is not considered high enough to be designated as gifted.2017, Jonathan Plucker, Ann Rinn, Matthew Makel -, From Giftedness to Gifted Education, →ISBN. From the entry underchallenged

Meaning of gifted

  1. adjective Endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities.
  2. noun A person who has special abilities or unusually great intellect.

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Questions about gifted in a sentence

How do you use gifted in a sentence?
Gifted is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Although he was a gifted musician, he was a plumber by trade and never played music professionally.”
What is a short sentence with gifted?
“a gifted artist”
What does gifted mean?
Gifted means endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities.

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