How to Use savant in a Sentence

savant

noun

• For avid fans of the production savant, the pairing of .Paak and Flylo is a dream come true.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 8 May 2019
• These wedding savants who have arranged nuptials big and small, far and wide, and some for the pages of Vogue.
  — Samantha Rees, Vogue, 17 May 2018
• All that work, and all that was proven was what some guy on his couch down the street in Santa Clara could’ve told them: Walsh was a savant.
  — Albert Breer, The MMQB, 27 June 2017
• Tim Ryan is an excitable 42-year-old film savant with a mop of reddish hair.
  — Simon Van Zuylen Wood, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• The beloved grocery chain and unmatched savant in the snack game has seen five product recalls in a month.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 25 Aug. 2023
• The feature savant Quavo hops in mid-record for the assist on the hook and delivers a verse of his own.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2017
• His character is a friend to Ted, as well as a sounding board and a kind of oddball savant.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
• As his website states, Kodi is a savant and has been playing piano and singing across the world for years.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 29 May 2019
• Standing 6-2, he’s been touted as a skilled shot creator and a midrange savant.
  — cleveland, 14 June 2022
• The difference was his work with Walker, a pass rush savant.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
• On a team full of scoring savants, Pachulia is a low-post plodder.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 15 May 2017
• The AI2 team wants to pull these computer savants away from their lonely tasks and plant seeds of common sense.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• The bad gal took to the platform this week to share a video review created by an above-neck savant in the throes of toddlerdom.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2017
• Kelly was the hot name, the offensive savant who went 46-7 at Oregon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2021
• From the vegetable savant behind Ava Gene’s, a book in which every salad recipe should be dog-eared.
  — Julia Kramer, Bon Appetit, 20 Apr. 2017
• From the vegetable savant behind Ava Gene’s, a book in which every salad recipe should be dog-eared.
  — Julia Kramer, Bon Appetit, 20 Apr. 2017
• Both are defensive savants and both score the majority of their points on rolls to the basket.
  — Broderick Turner, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2017
• But don’t expect Rush to follow in the footsteps of fellow red beard savant Turner.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 23 Jan. 2018
• Who knows, but what makes Porter such a basketball savant anyway?
  — Tod Palmer, kansascity, 18 Aug. 2017
• Pressured by the 70-plus-time Grammy Award-winning savant, Smith was ready to make his acting debut in two weeks.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 20 Nov. 2020
• Though such unbridled zeal can be abrasive to some, it could also be viewed as the mark of a peripatetic savant.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2018
• Some guys are just savants at the sport, like Kingsway senior Quinn Kinner, who has marched through the 138-pound weight class with his sights squarely set on a second straight state crown.
  — Phil Anastasia, Philly.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• Goal-scoring savant David Villa remains the fulcrum of this squad.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2018
• Born on the autism spectrum, Kopstein is a musical savant.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2021
• Kehlani is steadily stepping into the role of fashion savant.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2018
• Besides being an indomitable force throughout his 18-year career in the NBA, Shaq has also proven to be a hip hop savant.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 26 June 2017
• Swedish chef-savant Fredrik Berselius serves his tasting menus to ten lucky tables a night in an 1860s-era warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
  — Bon Appetit, 1 Aug. 2017
• All the while, her reputation grew as the new literary savant of the American West.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• The airing of that fact is sure to rankle his Uncle Donald, who loves to take credit for almost everything and to present himself as a business savant.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• Reynolds, a marketing savant, and Lively hoped the two very different films would indeed result in a Barbenheimer moment whereby both films become top of mind.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024