How to Use brainy in a Sentence

brainy

adjective
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  • The jock, the loser, the brainy nerd—think The Breakfast Club.
    — Annalise Mabe, Men's Health, 22 Feb. 2022
  • De-pantsed the brainy Pats, catching a touchdown pass on fourth down.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The Cars were a brainy band, but this is an openly dumb song that hit No. 4 on the charts because of its dance pulse.
    — Steve Morse, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • He’s is joined by a rotating cast of brainy kids from all over the country.
    — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 9 June 2019
  • The brainy Barbie, who comes in four skin tones, is available online for $13.99.
    — Melissa Locker, Time, 26 June 2018
  • Still, even the brainiest recruits have to master the basics.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • The brainy and beautiful Sasha Velour got some celeb love from Katy Perry.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
  • It’s a brainy sci-fi epic, something of a rarity these days.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Another is said to have skipped that step and just hired brainy subs to take tests for clients’ children.
    — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • Think of it like a TaskRabbit or Thumbtack for remote, more brainy work.
    — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 24 July 2018
  • Is bold, brainy but baffling Brandon Staley the best person to lead them into the hearts of this town?
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • In these cities, brainy people from all around the world come together and bounce ideas off each other.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Yeti T-shirts, Rubik’s Cube patterned face mask and other gifts for brainy dads.
    — oregonlive, 18 June 2020
  • There is no such rapport between the flamboyant Mr. Trump and the brainy, button-down Ms. Merkel.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • Kenneth was next, brainy and studious, but also kind of a jock—a picture of success from a very young age.
    — Edward Enninful, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Every year since its founding in 1973, the NIHF welcomes a new group of brainy hotshots to join its ranks.
    — Michael Calore, Wired, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Such brainy ideas might hold lessons for the AI community, furthering the back-and-forth between the two fields.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2017
  • But the brainy and independent Kate doesn’t want a husband and the unlikely couple match wits and fists all the way to the altar.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • Rybolovlev's trust in the glamorous, brainy 31-year-old lawyer is obvious.
    — Vicky Ward, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2015
  • The woman was looking for brainy contestants for both shows.
    — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Heather comes across like the brainiest girl in English class but too humble to realize it.
    — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
  • There are dreamy electro-pop songs and passionate bangers that get at her brainy and thirsty sides, just like her two crushes.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Glib, sly and brainy, his Tony Stark is a millionaire jerk whom Downey makes endearing.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2020
  • These small, fast-running, brainy predators are some of the closest relatives of birds.
    — Stephen Brusatte, Scientific American, 17 July 2015
  • Harley used to be a brainy psychologist, until the Joker led her down a nutso path of crime.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Other stars include Liam Hemsworth as a hunky/brainy hood and Vince Vaughan as a oddball drug kingpin.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 31 July 2020
  • The teenage Violet (Reyna de Courcy), who is brainy but poor, doesn’t realize just how much the odds are stacked against her.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • More distant relatives like monkeys and lemurs are quite brainy, too.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Meg, like L’Engle herself, is brainy, stubborn, headstrong, prone to anger at injustice and determined to do things her own way.
    — Abigail Santamaria, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Our list has brainy word teasers, multiplayer party games, and everything in between.
    — Kaitlyn McInnis, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2023

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