How to Use prodigy in a Sentence

prodigy

noun

• For so long, McLaughlin has been viewed in the world of track and field as a prodigy.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2021
• Eight years ago in Rio de Janeiro, Ms. Biles was a teenage prodigy.
  — Will Graves, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2024
• At the time, Sondheim, a prodigy in his mid-20s, was still a Broadway novice.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• This time the Buckeyes have the quarterback viewed as the prodigy while the Tigers landed the late bloomer.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 4 Mar. 2021
• The boy had uncanny balance and a prodigy’s feel for the wind.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Programs billed her as one of the greatest child prodigies since Mozart.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• Tutberidze shook her head and, at one point, stared at the ceiling as her prodigy flailed on the ice.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• No, the 39-year-old prodigy clearly is not scared, and give him credit for that.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• That’s merely a record, something that can be usurped in 30 or 40 years by the next prodigy that comes along.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
• Instead, the teenage prodigy fell apart in the short program and stood in 17th after night one.
  — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022
• Luk Kop didn’t seem to have the makings of a musical prodigy.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Moore was a child prodigy from Hawaii who grew up to be the youngest world champion surfer and a four-time world champ.
  — CBS News, 27 July 2021
• Branding has long since siphoned away the passion of the train-yard prodigy.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• The father of the kid in the suit bends down and grabs one of the children who was running, and starts shouting, ‘My son is a child prodigy!
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2021
• Welles, who lost his parents at a young age, was a wunderkind, a child prodigy.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2021
• The man Charles de Vilmorin is a creative prodigy who is already among the world's greats.
  — Alexandre Marain, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2022
• Both books tell the story of a child prodigy who learned to take a licking as part of the family act.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• The film was scripted by Scott Frank and centered on a seven-year-old child prodigy.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
• The video has garnered over 2 million views on TikTok, and tons of support for the prodigy.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 10 Nov. 2021
• The prodigy was soon playing works by Bach, Mozart and Schumann for up to six hours daily.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
• At that age, everybody writes about you as like a prodigy.
  — Suzy Expositostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• Gi-hun bonds with the old man, grows nostalgic over the ephemera of childhood, and praises Sang-woo as the town prodigy.
  — Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2021
• Just like Williams and Osaka, Oboh was a teenage prodigy.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 7 July 2021
• There was talk of finding the child prodigy a new instrument.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Yet the prodigy grew up in a San Diego house where listening to rock and roll was forbidden.
  — Alan Paul, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• Such has been the life of Alyssa Thompson, the 18-year-old soccer prodigy from Harvard-Westlake.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• Coach Shaka Smart subbed out the Vandegrift prodigy for a breather with 13:46 left in the second half.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2021
• What’s always the case is whichever player emerges as the late-bloomer has come along to steal the prodigy’s thunder and win Elite 11 MVP.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 7 July 2021
• Born in Poland in 1810, Chopin was a child prodigy who began composing at a young age and went on to study at the Warsaw Conservatory.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
• The other is the first big-screen work by a pair of 20-something prodigies who made a splash with the equivalent of unauthorized musical fan fiction — which won them a Grammy.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025