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noun

ingenuity

CEFR C1

the quality of being clever, original, and inventive

In a sentence

Six example sentences with ingenuity, each labelled with its topic.

  • With no money for a warehouse they stored inventory in a rented laundromat, the kind of ingenuity that keeps small companies alive.

    Startups

  • Wartime cooks showed real ingenuity, turning stale bread and one egg into a pudding that families still make today.

    Cooking

  • The tunnel was dug with kitchen spoons and its soil hidden in trouser pockets, an escape remembered for its ingenuity.

    History

  • Players showed remarkable ingenuity, stacking crates into a staircase to reach a rooftop the designers never meant anyone to climb.

    Gaming

  • The ingenuity of the design lies in its roof, which collects rain and channels it down the columns to cool the rooms below.

    Architecture

  • With the budget gone, the team used real ingenuity, building a working spectrometer from a webcam and a shard of an old DVD.

    Science

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