How to Use polymath in a Sentence

polymath

noun

• See a re-creation of the place where the famed polymath imagined and sketched his wonders.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2010
• But outside of her role as a politician, Abrams is a polymath of sorts.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• Xavier Louis-Jacques was a budding polymath whose life ended at the age of 19.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2021
• Carmontelle was a creative polymath in the employ of the young, fun-lovin’ Duke of Chartres.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• Thanks in part to the careers of multitalented stars like Kanye and Pharrell, the 2010s are the decade of the polymath.
  — Adam Wray, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2017
• Then again, the English polymath Robert Fludd had engraved a black square in a white border back in 1617.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• The 2019 Illusion of the Year is a set of twisting lines made by programmer and polymath Frank Force.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
• Horowitz, aptly described on his website as a polymath, is that and more.
  — Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2018
• The geodesic dome is only the most famous work the polymath came up with.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• The 18th-century French polymath helped to determine the shape of the Earth and even set the stage for the theory of evolution.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 1 May 2017
• To my mind, Philip Mansel should also make the cut as a contemporary polymath.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
• Today, he might be called a polymath or a Renaissance man.
  — Harriet Quick, theweek, 17 July 2024
• The new study is part of an international effort to find and sequence the polymath's DNA.
  — NBC News, 14 July 2021
• As for the saw, that was the province of David Coulter, the musical polymath who is the festival’s artist-in-residence.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2018
• The life of Enid Sales, a preservationist and all-around polymath, sounds almost too delightful to be true.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Alan Watts lived the rest of his life as a committed philosophical polymath.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2018
• His status as an academic polymath can be traced back to his boyhood.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
• Marci sent the manuscript to Kircher in Rome in 1665, hoping that the Jesuit scholar and polymath would be able to decipher it.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2024
• As someone who finds time to play with metro big bands in Virginia these days, the 48-year-old polymath is a pure musician who continues to keep his skills sharp.
  — Eric Diep, Billboard, 31 May 2022
• At its heart is a conception of truth put forward by the nineteenth-century polymath Charles Sanders Peirce.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• The Norwegian polymath Fridtjof Nansen was first to lead an expedition across the ice sheet, traversing the narrow southern end of the island in 1888.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2019
• The great Italian artist and polymath Leonardo Da Vinci was an early proponent of this idea.
  — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• One of the Italian polymath Taccola’s curious inventions involved a dog tied by a long line to a bell at the top of a tower.
  — Anthony Grafton, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• Not all influencers are brilliant polymaths, of course.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 16 July 2019
• The artistic director of the entire project is the enigmatic polymath Philippe Starck.
  — Nick Remsen, CNN, 12 July 2022
• Guitarist Rafiq Bhatia has always been something of a polymath.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 29 Mar. 2018
• Unlike the great British polymath and design reformer William Morris, Howard was not a socialist.
  — Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2021
• In the experiment, first proposed in 1801 by British polymath Thomas Young, a beam of photons—particles of light—flies toward a wall with two slits cut in it.
  — Urbasi Sinha, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2020
• Greek polymath Archimedes takes a bath and figures out how to calculate volume and density.
  — National Geographic, 23 May 2017
• The British polymath Edmond Halley, best remembered as the namesake of Halley’s comet, had foretold it.
  — Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024