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How to use the word smarter in a Sentence? Page #5

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I don't think you're smarter than anybody else, but you've convinced a lot of us you are.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

From the time we're little girls, we're taught to compete, i need to be prettier, taller, smarter, my hair needs to be straighter, curlier, whatever it is. I need to get the better looking guy. I need to always be better than because we're taught to come from a place of lack as women.

Sophia Nelson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two, i did it for convenience, and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have two devices from the very beginning.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I did it for convenience, and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have two devices from the very beginning.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

And what we found was that parents who overvalue, they think their child is very smart but in reality, the child isn't smarter than others.

Eddie Brummelman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I am not going to say what we are going to do and what we are not, but we, as a progressive community, have got to be more targeted and smarter, we are going to figure out what that is.

Denise Feriozzi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There are several elements that make these single card solutions even more secure than their basic counterparts, and beyond the convenience and safety these devices offer, they are also smarter, making it possible to track your habits more easily or provide you with contextually relevant information.

Rachel Rothman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I want people to see that Fable is going to be impactful on a child, there’s so much stuff out there that parents have to assess. With this, they know there is something that will make their children smarter, it’s something that will impact a child’s growth.

Matthew Growney

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You can reduce the use of these medications through legislation, but I don’t know that you’ll improve the quality of care very much, a smarter way forward would be to increase non-pharmacological treatments for sleep and anxiety.

Mark Olfson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As we get smarter, we'll be building more app-based solutions for advertisers, digital is the future.

Outfront Media

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Either they've gotten smarter or they're just on autopilot.

Tom Roseen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If it's your professor or employer, I guess you want to be smart, but not if there is a guy in the room. In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.

Eileen Pollack

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Gerald Ford

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

Benjamin Hooks

added by anonymous
9 years ago

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

Alfred Hitchcock

added by anonymous
10 years ago

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Will Rogers

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When a battle of wits begins between two people, the smarter of the two will concede knowing that the other person is unable to see any point of view other than their own.

T.R. Threston

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Michael J. Gelb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

R. H. Grant

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field

Jim Boulton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

A. Whitney Brown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.

Annie Gottlieb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are.

Mickey Manfield

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Jeff Valdez

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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