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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The child prodigy Philippa Duke Schuyler reads Plutarch on train trips, eats steaks raw, and writes poems in honor of her dolls.
  — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 26 June 2022
• Mark Zuckerberg was a software prodigy while in high school.
  — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Connolly, a teen prodigy from San Diego, had the most dominant run to a Grand Slam.
  — New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• The plot concerns a rabbinic prodigy named Nahum, who falls in love with his father-in-law’s young wife and gets her pregnant.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• And a 10-year-old Venus Williams posed for a photo heralding her arrival as a tennis prodigy to watch.
  — John Russell, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
• The kid genius enjoyed many ups and downs as a child prodigy in '80s and '90s East Texas, but had the support of his family through it all.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 6 May 2024
• This prodigy, who has the weight of a nation on his shoulders, exudes joy and character for one so novice.
  — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Ivan is a 22-year-old chess prodigy who is painfully aware of his social awkwardness.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024