Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "gifted"

Lexicographically close words:
gife; giff; gifs; gift; gifte; giftes; gifts; gig; gigantea; giganteus
  1. I regret that the clever logician, instead of conceiving a statue smelling a rose, did not imagine it gifted with some instinct.

  2. If a construction of this sort is a fortuitous result, we must admit that blind chance is gifted with extraordinary powers of foresight.

  3. This undertaker is endowed, they say, with intellectual faculties approaching to reason, such as are not possessed by the most gifted of the Bees and Wasps, the collectors of honey or game.

  4. He had an extraordinarily gifted set of boys under him, and he seems to have trained them well.

  5. This apparent passion or mania for resigning posts in favour of gifted pupils might easily have led to a pernicious custom amongst organists.

  6. And there their intimacy ended, a fact much regretted in print by her gifted son years afterward.

  7. As for Monsieur Hanska, he, being not quite so scientific as his gifted wife, read the stories for a different reason, and enjoyed them so much that they served him as a mine from which he lifted his original stuff.

  8. The gifted son was now nineteen, and at work as a junior clerk under his father at twenty pounds a year.

  9. The Eleventh Commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Snoop," evidently had never been called to her attention, and even her gifted son is seemingly totally unaware of it.

  10. But there, I never finds anybody gifted with no consideration.

  11. This Kale was a man of large wondering power, gifted moreover with a faith in ghosts, which often detracted from his comfort.

  12. This young Norman, gifted with dangerous abilities, coupled his desires for success with the harsh defects which, justly or unjustly, are attributed to the natives of his province.

  13. Mrs. Bronte was also gifted with literary ability and taste.

  14. The father of these gifted authors, Patrick Bronte, whose life and personal characteristics well deserve study, was a native of the county Down.

  15. His earlier poems, although occasionally showing some power, were not sufficiently gifted to add to the lustre of Bronte literature.

  16. When Branwell returned from London it was not without sincere satisfaction that his acquaintances welcomed their gifted and versatile friend back to Haworth, certain of whom induced him to become a freemason.

  17. The church in which he, for the remainder of his life, performed his religious services, and in which his more gifted children repose, after their brief but memorable lives, was of ancient date.

  18. Sutcliffe Sowden, then incumbent of Mytholm--the gentleman who afterwards performed the marriage ceremony between the gifted lady and Mr. Nicholls.

  19. Here was his first-born, the early joy of his home at Hartshead, the intelligent and brilliantly gifted companion of the first few years of his widowed life--dying before him!

  20. He was, too, gifted with a sprightly disposition, tinged at times with great melancholy, but he acquired early a lively and fascinating address.

  21. Rigid formality, silent chambers, staid attire, frugal fare, and secluded lives fell to the lot of these thoughtful and gifted children.

  22. To Cardinal Hinsley he cabled "Holy Father deeply grieved death Mr. Gilbert Keith Chesterton devoted son Holy Church gifted Defender of the Catholic Faith.

  23. My only advantage over the gifted novelist lies in my belonging to the former class.

  24. This must have been the price of the best type of labourer, of a man probably who was gifted with intelligence as well as strength.

  25. How could history serve life better than by anchoring the less gifted races and peoples to the homes and customs of their ancestors, and keeping them from ranging far afield in search of better, to find only struggle and competition?

  26. He became thoroughly identified with the work which the Lord brought forth through his gifted son.

  27. And does your imagination, Amine, conjure up a race of beings gifted to live beneath that deep blue wave, who sport amid the coral rocks, and braid their hair with pearls?

  28. Mortals in power, possessing nothing but what is mundane, are answerable for the use of that power; so those gifted by superior means, are answerable as they employ those means.

  29. Does not the proud heart bound at the feeling that its owner is one of those more gifted than the usual race of mortals?

  30. The good, the great, the gifted and the gay were assembled at that nuptial ceremony, but of all the grand gentlemen gathered there, not one could aspire to the manners and appearance of the groom himself.

  31. But the melancholy event of the passing away of the gifted and favored young daughter from the home of the Washingtons suddenly bereft the family of joy and gladness.

  32. THEY SAY anything that brings gifted people to the level of their own experience.

  33. As to artists, all the good ones are married; and ever since the rest have been able to read in hundreds of books that they are the most gifted and godlike of men, they are become almost as intolerable as their literary flatterers.

  34. Hence the Germans, though a gifted race, had not advanced as rapidly as the Greek and Italian peoples.

  35. When their hieroglyphics have been completely deciphered, we shall learn much more about this gifted people.

  36. He is described as being tall and commanding in presence, strong and vigorous of body, and gifted with great charm of manner.

  37. Thus the reader sees what great authorities may be produced to prove that wonderful and true predictions have been delivered by many persons gifted with the second-sight.

  38. Notwithstanding his ignorance of the lore of Christianity, Thomas Wingfold was, in regard to some things, gifted with what I am tempted to call a divine stupidity.

  39. Under the mirth and mirth-provoking art of this gifted actor there always runs that magic touch which has been defined as "serious without being earnest!

  40. He was an artist, and was gifted in many ways, especially with great social abilities.

  41. Illustration: Bach accompanying his musically gifted second wife—for whom he wrote some of his most inspired arias—in an informal recital at their Leipzig home.

  42. In the fullness of time she became the mother of two of Bach’s most gifted sons.

  43. A gifted but intolerably arrogant person, Marchand had fallen into disgrace in Versailles and found it prudent to emigrate.

  44. To ease the torment of sleepless nights the Count had in his service a gifted clavecinist, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, a pupil of Bach’s.

  45. He is gifted with the most overwhelming powers of speech, which always are sure to get him out of the scrapes into which his indiscreet use of them very frequently leads him.

  46. I am not so blind but I can see that he it is who gifted the Jew with his additional head.

  47. In 1921 she married the gifted American composer, Homer Samuels, who for many years had been the pianist upon her tours.

  48. It was Schumann's particular privilege to be gifted with the acute sense of proportion which enabled him to estimate just what kind of an accompaniment a melody should have.

  49. But do not let us suppose that the presence of such feelings mark us out as specially religious or spiritually gifted people.

  50. And, secondly, they had supposed that persons so highly gifted as themselves were above, not only ordinary precautions, but ordinary principles.

  51. But the popularity of this gifted child of nature, and this shrewd observer of mankind, is doomed to another obstruction than that of his curious diction.

  52. In almost every generation, nevertheless, there happened to be some one descendant of the family gifted with a portion of the hard, keen sense, and practical energy, that had so remarkably distinguished the original founder.

  53. His character, indeed, might be traced all the way down, as distinctly as if the Colonel himself, a little diluted, had been gifted with a sort of intermittent immortality on earth.

  54. For, at bottom, there is a tacit understanding between the more nobly gifted and more warmly disposed men of the present day.

  55. It is one of the imperfections of this chapter that the names cannot be given of the many gifted young ladies who have gone from Minnesota for a musical education to the New York and Boston Conservatories of Music.

  56. She was a good writer, an effective speaker, and a preëminently brave woman, gifted with that rarest of all virtues, common sense.

  57. Missouri has always felt a becoming pride in the gifted daughter, Miss Phoebe Couzins, who was the first woman to enter the law school, go through the entire course, and graduate with honor to herself and her native State.

  58. Speaking of the gifted sculptor, a correspondent says: Harriet Hosmer was born in 1830.

  59. Shafter, a gifted and influential lady, was also an active worker in the good cause.

  60. Kellogg is not only a successful practitioner of medicine, but is gifted with eloquent speech, and has on several occasions addressed the legislature of the State; Dr.

  61. Chase, secretary of the treasury under Abraham Lincoln, seeing that most of the gifted young men had been drafted or had enlisted in the army, introduced young women as clerks in the government departments.

  62. All who met her soon came to appreciate her gifted nature, her rare talent and spiritual insight.

  63. Correll, and a host of women suddenly found themselves gifted with the power to speak and write, which they consecrated to the cause of their civil liberties.

  64. Miss Mary Bogardus, the gifted young daughter of that pioneer journalist, H.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gifted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adroit; apt; brainy; bright; brilliant; capable; clever; consummate; dexterous; divine; endowed; exceptional; gifted; golden; good; great; ingenious; intelligent; keen; nimble; perfect; polished; practised; precocious; professional; proficient; quick; scintillating; sharp; skilful; smart; talented; versatile