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clever - use in sentences
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- do: It does something clever with Google maps to create a map where visitors to your site are logged.
Modifies a noun
- clog: Some clever clogs could do it in 30 minutes of course.
- trick: The " clever trick " to cancel parking tickets was eagerly read.
- twist: He has a knack for making a simple, cute song more substantial by throwing in a clever, little twist or two.
- chap: What they are really saying is " gosh look what a clever chap I am!
- lyric: John Doyle's clever lyrics of Joe's patter song could have come straight from that masterly weaver of words W. S. Gilbert.
Modifying Another Word
- fiendishly: It looks stunning, and appears to be fiendishly clever.
- diabolically: If that was the case, then the old devil picked a diabolically clever agent of destruction: PJ Proby.
- amazingly: Some, such as the coupling shot are amazingly clever, but very difficult to master.
- exceptionally: She's beautiful, truthful, and hilarious, without vanity or affectation, exceptionally clever " .
- terribly: Yep, the old boy was certainly terribly clever.
- remarkably: They are all remarkably clever; and they have so many pretty ways.
Infinitive complement
- know: Many are clever enough to know the truth, but choose to use their cleverness to continue to hide behind it.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: I am also feeling very clever for learning how to put a tag in.
- box: Boxing clever, bird and bat box making at the Mere - Council news ( 2 October 2004 ).
- get: Use the links below to find out how offset can help you get clever with your cash.
- sound: You were really trying your best to sound clever there weren't you.
- look: He doesn't look too clever, I am gutted at the moment.
Preposition: by
- half: Is this why you can be ' too clever by half ' ?
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