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• This throws the onus on freight operators' train planners to devise ingenious solutions to finding new paths.2023 September 6, Anthony Lambert, “Train paths: more space for freight?”, in RAIL, number 991, page 34. From the entry onus
• It was an ingenious idea—your own, in fact—to celebrate Sweet Blursday in the classic fashion.2021, Nick Mamatas, “The Man You Flee at Parties”, in Preston Grassmann, editor, Out of the Ruins, London: Titan Books, →ISBN. From the entry Blursday
• Another ingenious invention is the cellular shade that is raised from the bottom up.2011 July 1, Dan Chiras, The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and…. From the entry cellular shade
• This vexed question underlies Frank Cottrell Boyce’s hilarious and ingenious hymn to dadliness and all things dadly.2008 July 12, “Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce, read by Daniel Ryan; Macmillan, 6hrs, £16.99”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,621, page 31. From the entry dadliness
• His compositions, mostly bearing Yiddish titles and klezmerlike scales, made ingenious use of them.2007 February 10, Nate Chinen, “A Musician Examines His Roots With Ingenuity and Ambivalence”, in New York Times. From the entry klezmerlike
• Virtually the whole of the region fell to Saxe's ingenious generalship.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 136. From the entry generalship
• The medieval knight had to be magnanimous, ingenious, largifluous, egregious, strenuous—a real Miles dei.1957, August Closs, Medusa’s Mirror: Studies in German Literature, London: The Cresset Press, page 47. From the entry largifluous
• Those who are lurkish, are open to the attacks of every ingenious scoundrel whose art will not alarm their indolence.2017, J. G. Zimmerman, Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things. From the entry lurkish
• You must learn to be ingenious in arranging groundplans.2015, Francis Hodge, Michael McLain, Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry groundplan
• The code and the freedoms become inseparable through the ingenious element of reciprocity in perpetuity that is inherent in the GPL.2010 winter, J[ohn] Martin Pedersen, “Free Software as Property”, in The Commoner: [A Web Journal for Other Values], number 14 (Property…. From the entry computer vira
• For, of all contriving to encover space, the arch — alone or 'circulared' into the dome — is the most ingenious.2008, Donald E. Wagner, Kenneth Cragg, Dying in the Land of Promise, page 116. From the entry circular
• “This is ingenious,” I told the weretroll.2008, A. Bradbury, Tablets of Immortality, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry weretroll
• All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 20. From the entry fringe
• A DigiSlate is a clapperboard with the ingenious addition of a digital timecode display (hours : minutes : seconds : frames).2003, Chris Jones, The Guerilla^([sic]) Film Makers Movie Blueprint, page 318. From the entry digislate
• "That was an ingenious idea, Earthperson," it said slowly.1983, James White, Sector General, page 24. From the entry Earthperson
• When it did not match their miscellaneous firearms, they were ingenious at reconverting the ammo to the weapon.1963, Margaret Bourke-White, chapter 28, in Portrait of Myself, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 338. From the entry reconvert
• Here are ingenious tools, lovely vases, double-duty planters, practical and stylish gardenwear—in short, all the newest and best for up-to-the-minute gardeners.1955 April, Holiday, volume 17, number 4, page 147. From the entry gardenwear
• Pye had never forgotten or forgiven the ingenious fraud.1935, Warwick Deeping, “In a Little Belgian Town”, in Two in a Train and Other Stories. From the entry separative
• He made his fortune by an ingenious conspiracy of doctoring the crop reports and unloading favourably in consequence.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry unload
• In fact, almost any small wrench now is styled a "bicycle" wrench and some of them are remarkably ingenious.1914 January 15, [Editors], “Usefulness of bicycle wrenches”, in Motor World, volume 38, number 4, page 34. From the entry bicycle wrench
• This is almost always done with a most ingenious drill, called in Telugu a gorru, and hardly ever by sowing broad-cast.1905, W. Francis, Anantapur, page 44. From the entry gorru
• Fortunately, Dad was an ingenious sort.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry bits and pieces
• Their parents soon become the most ingenious babyproofers alive, and live, for these hectic two years, in houses that are battened down like ships.2001, Holly Bennett, Teresa Pitman, The toddler years: from 1 to 3. From the entry babyproofer
• The experiment was particularly ingenious because, as the neutrino hardly interacts with matter, some way of indirectly measuring its helicity had to be devised.1999, Gustavo Castelo Branco, Luís Lavoura, João Paulo Silva, CP Violation, Oxford University Press, page 12. From the entry helicity
• Ideal released several more plush Smokeys, but the company's most ingenious move was to include application cards allowing kids to become a "Junior Forest Ranger."1998, Dana Cain, Film and TV Animal Star Collectibles, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry smokey
• This might have been an amusing and ingenious piece of fantasy, but Palmer published it, and demanded that it be accepted, as fact.1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, RICHARD S(harpe) SHAVER. From the entry grotch
• Particularly ingenious, I think, is the bilingualism: the English “notes-art” implying the pianist’s inexpressivity, and the German “no-zart” (zart meaning tender or delicate).1957, Abram Chasins, Speaking of Pianists…, page 52. From the entry inexpressivity
• This ingenious plan expressed in a booklet by the Italian Roman Catholic priest had received three Nihil Obstats and two Imprimaturs from his bishop.1943, Elisabeth Achelis, The Calendar for Everybody, New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, page 53. From the entry imprimatur
• The immediate effect, however, was that all the ingenious calculations of the Wilhelmstrasse came clattering to the ground like a house of cards.1911, The Fortnightly Review, volume 96, page 638. From the entry Wilhelmstrasse
• Sydney Grundy, made in the time when his chief claim to recognition as a playwright lay in his ingenious aptitude for Englishing the un-Englishable.1901, The Speaker, the Liberal Review - Volume 3, page 654. From the entry english
• Alien’s lasting impact can be attributed to its ingenious juxtaposition of beauty and horror; not just in how the audience perceives those things, but the crew.2024 October 30, Jalen Maki, “Movies You Gotta See: 45 years later, ‘Alien’ remains a titan of sci-fi horror”, in Green Bay Press Times…. From the entry compromise to a permanent end
• The ingenious use of clips from Fox’s work to dramatize his real-life journey, courtesy of editor Michael Harte, an über fan familiar with every movie and TV episode.2023 June 21, Daniel Vaillancourt, “This season, five documentaries focus on icons who hit big in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s”, in Los Angeles…. From the entry über fan
• The station had an ingenious "worm" - a corrugated iron tunnel permitting First Class passengers to transfer from platform to hotel without fear of getting wet.2022 August 24, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the Cotswold Line”, in RAIL, number 964, page 60. From the entry get wet
• Cushing had found ingenious ways to surgically extract brain tumors, including the notorious glioblastomas—tumors so heavily crisscrossed with blood vessels that they could hemorrhage any minute.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 71. From the entry glioblastoma
• The Heffalump is a character from Winnie-the-Pooh that has been hunted by many individuals using various ingenious trapping devices, but no one has succeeded in capturing it so far.2008, Eva Cools, “The Hunt for the Heffalump Continues: Who is the Flemish Entrepreneur?”, in Hans Landström, Hans Crijns, Eddy Laveren…. From the entry heffalump
• The ingenious adventuress, who may have become Rohan's mistress, formed a plan to make her fortune out of the cardinal's passion for power and the queen's passion for gems.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 337. From the entry adventuress
• Among other fascinating insights, Penrose explains that the God particle was originally proposed by Peter Higgs as "an ingenious theoretical device, and not necessarily appearing as an actual particle.1998, Phillip E. Johnson, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education, →ISBN, page 229. From the entry God particle

Meaning of ingenious

1. adjective Of a person, displaying genius, ingenuity or brilliance; inventive.
2. adjective Of a thing, characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.
3. adjective Showing originality or sagacity; characterized by ingenuity; witty.

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How do you use ingenious in a sentence?

Ingenious is used as an adjective. For example: “This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn’t even know I had.”

What is a short sentence with ingenious?

“Fortunately, Dad was an ingenious sort.”

What does ingenious mean?

Ingenious means of a person, displaying genius, ingenuity or brilliance; inventive.