TALENTED in a Sentence

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So did mine, but I proved to her that I had talent by taking a few lessons privately, and then she was quite willing I should go on.

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 Meanings and Examples of TALENTED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
talented
 a.  showing a natural gift for something
Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  She had been married to a bright and talented young mulatto man, who was a slave on a neighboring estate, and bore the name of George Harris.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Two of these, on opposite sides of the area, were now occupied by brilliant and talented gentlemen, enthusiastically forcing up, in English and French commingled, the bids of connoisseurs in their various wares.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  The true nobility laughed at him, the talented repelled him, and the honorable instinctively despised him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.
4  He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  The beauty, fashion, and exclusiveness of Port Middlebay, flocked to do honour to one so deservedly esteemed, so highly talented, and so widely popular.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. A VISITOR
6  I shouldn't have troubled you; but it's a pity, he is such a talented youngster.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
7  "Little Raphael," as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
8  Boys are trying enough to human patience, goodness knows, but girls are infinitely more so, especially to nervous gentlemen with tyrannical tempers and no more talent for teaching than Dr. Blimber.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
9  Yes, he has had an excellent education, and has much talent.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
10  So did mine, but I proved to her that I had talent by taking a few lessons privately, and then she was quite willing I should go on.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
11  It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
12  The girls do care for me, and I for them, and there's a great deal of kindness and sense and talent among them, in spite of what you call fashionable nonsense.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
13  That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
14  I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
16  She has loads of natural talent as a runner and with rigorous training she could be a world-beater.
17  Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time ; a man of talent tries to use it.
18  The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame.
19  The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of time.
20  He was very contemptuous of 'popular' writers, whom he described as having no talent.
21  He's a singer whose talent has gone off in recent years.
22  Your diligent combined with your innate talent indicates a dynamic future.
23  I believe that every person is born with talent.
24  The show is a celebration of new young talent.
25  Not all of us possess earthshaking talent.
26  She had the time and the inspiration to develop her talent.
27  Only later did she discover a talent for writing.
28  Her talent for music showed at an early age.
29  His energy and talent elevate him to godlike status.
30  This lack of jobs has resulted in a huge wastage of talent.