How to Use brained in a Sentence

brained

adjective

• Turns out Smith was right to tap into her right-brained self.
  — Taiia Smart Young, Essence, 9 Apr. 2021
• But the real smooth-brained move is to take memes at face value.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
• This tiny, small-brained creature stood just a bit more than three feet tall and had a brain as big as a chimp.
  — Pasquale Raia, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2019
• This is one of the rare big-brained small words that work equally well as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
• This is especially true of big-brained birds like crows, ravens and blue jays.
  — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
• What Drake knew was how to combine the right and left-brained attributes of a well-rounded success story.
  — Kathy Iandoli, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2018
• That’s on top of the on-field ineptitude and hare-brained personnel moves, mind you.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
• What do the helmets so many of you carp-brained mopes opt to leave at home actually protect against?
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• Scott wasn’t sure what to make of McDowell, an overstuffed pillow of a 30-year-old stoner who came off as a soft-brained teen.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• Savage thinks the shift might have something to do with the uniquely human challenge of having big-brained babies.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
• View 86 Photos Jaguar hopes the Sportbrake can carve out its own niche within a niche as a sporty driver’s car for right-brained pragmatists.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 27 Oct. 2017
• To Rio’s distress, a group of boys at a table nearby start to flirt coarsely with the overdeveloped and somewhat under-brained Pucha.
  — Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
• Though a far cry from a human, big-brained cuttlefish are good candidates for stereo vision.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
• The Obama administration is poised to take up one of the more dangerous and hare-brained schemes of the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2010
• Very few other species ever pass the test; those that do are mostly or entirely big-brained mammals such as chimpanzees.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2018
• No new facts are necessary to demonstrate that Trump was a sulky, smooth-brained baby, prone to fits of pouty anger, enabled by a coterie of vile liars and violent stooges.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 2 July 2022
• Even if mom doesn’t have children at home, stress-relief is top of mind as Americans emerge from lockdown foggy-brained and sleep-deprived.
  — Anna Haines, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• This relatively small-brained hominin is thought to have been confined to Africa between around 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago.
  — Colin Barras, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
• As early as 2.6 million years ago, some small-bodied and small-brained human ancestors chipped small flakes off of larger stones to use their sharp cutting edges.
  — Shelby Putt, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
• The age of these fossils puts these strange, small-brained yet human-like hominins in South Africa just before the emergence of the first anatomically modern Homo sapiens.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 9 May 2017
• Whether the vision that had birthed it was fact or fiction, historical record or fever-brained concoction, hardly seemed to matter.
  — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
• This is the third consecutive game he’s taken a blank-brained penalty for what amounts to unsportsmanlike conduct.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 17 Sep. 2017
• The problem with woo is the mindset: a credulous, mush-brained approach to subjects that require study, hard thinking, and real evidence.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 2 Dec. 2021
• And surprisingly, so does the tiny-brained praying mantises.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2018
• Nothing’s more American than a science-hero—an indomitable, big-brained hasher-out of ideas that change the world, that make the impossible possible.
  — Wired, 2 Aug. 2019
• Announced in 2015, the tiny-brained species sports a remarkable mosaic of modern and archaic features.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 13 Sep. 2017
• Much of it is myopic and small-brained, from sideline observers gleefully salivating at the opportunity to take him down a peg.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
• Our early ancestors did not simply become bigger brained and more upright over time.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 9 May 2017
• This analysis could only emerge from the goldfish-brained world of Beltway journalism, in which no information is retained for more than a day or two.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2021
• Some spider experts think that arthropods have been underestimated thanks to bias towards big-brained animals.
  — WIRED, 31 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024