How to Use smarten in a Sentence

smarten

verb

• Or they can be smartened up with tapered pants and a crisp shirt.
  — Kavita Daswani, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Or at least, smarten up the house with some new gadgets to solve this issue.
  — Tom Chiarella, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2017
• Made by the same company that creates all sorts of robots to smarten formerly dumb gadgets, this curtain bot is on Kickstarter for $69.
  — Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 4 Nov. 2019
• More than that, like the platforms, the media needs to smarten up about ways that extremists successfully manipulate the media into writing about them.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2018
• Hotels are smartening up in new ways, with thought-provoking experiences for guests that make a more lasting impression.
  — Kate Springer, CNN, 9 May 2017
• There are also commercial producers with discerning taste and bold instincts, such as Scott Rudin, who are committed to smartening up the Broadway landscape.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 1 May 2018
• Anecdotally, says Abrahamsen, when looking through more recent pitch decks from other startups to investors, entrepreneurs also appear to be smartening up to the trend.
  — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020
• Now scientists at Princeton University have invented a technology aimed at smartening up the millions of windows already in place.
  — Daniel Akst, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• Released this week, Planets is One Ring Zero’s latest attempt to smarten up traditional pop using unconventional sonics and subjects.
  — Scott Thill, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2010

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