How to Use whip-smart in a Sentence

whip-smart

adjective

• Grey is whip-smart and activist-minded even to her detriment.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• But the death sparks a revolution of sorts as the whip-smart Danvers can't come up with a decent plan.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
• There’s a whip-smart 10-year-old girl in the Gaza Strip who speaks good English, displays a radiant smile and seemed to have a bright future.
  — Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Dubs were cohesive, high-energy, and whip-smart for a full 48-minute campaign.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• Her mother was whip-smart, Houston said, and introduced her to books, music and film.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 3 June 2023
• The range also was comprised of pieces that a whip-smart and financially savvy crew of friends would have worn for a weeklong vacation to Las Vegas.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
• Constantly on the move from one house to another, the whip-smart youngster, who loved school but rarely attended it, spent her days tending to her younger sister.
  — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
• Paltrow stars as Pepper Potts, Stark’s whip-smart assistant.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
• That movie was born from an alchemical blend of a whip-smart script (penned by multiple writers), Favreau’s deft direction, and the impish charm of Robert Downey, Jr.
  — Angela L. Harvey, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
• And no one has forgotten Eloise Bridgerton, the whip-smart and brazen young woman who prefers expanding her worldview over attending balls.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2024
• Still, the wordy, whip-smart banter flows easily between the two, moving from kinda corny generational riffs to opening old wounds.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• That comedy background shines through in abundance in the character of Emma, whose whip-smart, acerbic humor masks a much gentler and more fragile soul.
  — Sandy Thin, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• This whip-smart, hilarious teen drama is full of plot twists and turns, but there's also an extremely cute lesbian romance.
  — Lydia Wang, Women's Health, 5 June 2023
• Some of the best television shows are about whip-smart operators and the political nuances of their professional worlds.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
• Through atmospheric camerawork, whip-smart dialogue, and a sea of film references for cinephiles to bathe in, The Half of It spins a coming-of-age love story that bleeds wisdom beyond its years.
  — Lia Beck, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2024
• The crown jewel has to be Poker Face, a quirky and whip-smart mystery series starring Natasha Lyonne as a casino cocktail waitress with an uncanny knack for knowing when people are lying.
  — Amanda Prahl, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
• Harvey's secretary Donna (Sarah Rafferty) is whip-smart.
  — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
• Among the forgettable melodramas there are also plenty of hidden gems—thoroughly modern love stories with whip-smart scripts and surprises up their sleeves, many of them directed by women and featuring more diverse casts than the average ’90s weepie.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
• Like her creator, Bodie is whip-smart, hilarious, preternaturally attuned to the tiny absurdities of everyday life and the quirks of personality.
  — Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• Dixie Carter's Julia Sugarbaker was a refined Southern woman—intellectual, whip-smart, feminine, and downright fearsome.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 June 2023
• Also in Screen Gab No. 104, three nonfiction streaming recommendations for your weekend, including two documentary profiles and a whip-smart Korean reality competition.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024