How to Use street smarts in a Sentence

street smarts

plural noun

• Will my child lack the street smarts that serve city kids so well?
  — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• This is one of those days when you can be filled with both street smarts and ancient wisdom.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2020
• Diana’s progress in the first half of season 2 is a testament to those book and street smarts.
  — Essence, 21 Dec. 2021
• Your street smarts and understanding of the ways of the world can put you at the top of the heap in August and September.
  — Magi Helena, oregonlive, 25 June 2020
• This small victory displayed Burkan’s strengths: street smarts, a creative use of the law and a will to win.
  — Eric Felten, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• Still, Arlene seemed to take to the job, which combined her street smarts and business acumen.
  — Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
• Joyce is the textbook feminist, but has no street smarts.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
• Listen to the whisper of your intuitions as well as your street smarts.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2020
• Using his street smarts, Mundo would pretend to hire a hit man.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2020
• Some people are business smarts, book smarts, street smarts, and some people are both.
  — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 14 Sep. 2021
• June is when your street smarts are most effective in commerce and career.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
• The Nevers will follow the women’s fight against the many powers that be using their street smarts, the fists, and a host of cool steampunk-era gadgets.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2021
• And their mother will promote this business far and wide, using her street smarts to find investors.
  — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• But in this case, the bigger part of the appeal may be watching Buckley work a buyer using bravado and street smarts.
  — Jasper Craven, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• Use both book and street smarts to navigate through the cutthroat competition of the business world.
  — Vahe Tirakyan, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Put your financial ideas and business plans on hold during the first half of January, when your street smarts are on a downhill trend.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2020
• Will’s street smarts frequently clash with the country-club values of his family, who, for the most part, seem to have lost touch with their cultural roots.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• The solution, as noted above, involves viewing Billie as more savvy and street smart than she’s often seen.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2018
• My New York City street smarts were no match for passive-aggressive rumors whispered in the hallways and racist notes tucked into my locker.
  — Kavita Das, Longreads, 29 Jan. 2018
• The Oxford dictionary denotes street smarts as the knowledge and experience to deal with the difficulties and dangers of life in the big city.
  — Jon Michail, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Attack the Block followed Boyega’s Moses, a young gang leader turned local hero who uses his street smarts to fight an alien invasion.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Aug. 2022
• Common sense, street smarts, and positive energy keep me safe.
  — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2018
• The average person may not have the street smarts, negotiation skills or the ability to read social cues that this type of work requires.
  — Chloe Meley, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2021
• And the example of his father, the television and film actor Andy McPhee, who has a successful career and was intent on teaching him street smarts, loomed large.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2021
• The film follows a big-box store employee (Lopez) who, after reinventing herself, gets the chance to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as a college degree.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
• In a way, Rap Sh!t serves as a snapshot of women in hip-hop at this moment, when sexuality, social media, and street smarts are all intertwined.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 May 2022
• Assuming horror pics often have Black characters as the first to die, the all-Black ensemble of characters in The Blackening must use their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies to stay alive.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2022
• Get your career, finances or a business situation in order during late November while your street smarts are in high gear.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• The first half of July is when your street smarts and wisdom can be at full throttle, so that’s likely an excellent time to make business decisions or launch a new money-making enterprise.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2021
• As a girl without supernatural powers, Max possesses a different kind of strength — cleverness and street smarts that El, who spent most of her childhood locked up in a lab, does not have.
  — Sophie Hayssen, Teen Vogue, 12 July 2019

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024