How to Use wunderkind in a Sentence

wunderkind

noun

• Taken the air out of the lungs of the wunderkind from Highland Park?
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2021
• Wolff was a wunderkind at the age of 30 and seemingly a has-been at the age of 38.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Oct. 2021
• Shen scored four goals in that game and has emerged as the newest wunderkind in the sport.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• The Rikkis is a wunderkind of a rock cover band from Houston.
  — Houston Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2019
• Crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried is about to learn his fate.
  — Rafael Nam, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• The Lions have Matthew Stafford — their own wunderkind, once upon a time.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2020
• Welles, who lost his parents at a young age, was a wunderkind, a child prodigy.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2021
• This wunderkind — elected at 23 to lead one of the best and unluckiest cities in the state — was a hands-on kind of guy.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• The wine wunderkind, 36-year-old Jesse Katz, has had his hands in several of high-profile projects over the last decade.
  — Matt Villano, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
• Hard not to believe in him now, still at just 37, a wunderkind turned firebrand of fashion.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 5 May 2022
• Now comes another wunderkind of sorts with a chance to alter the course of the rivalry.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2021
• Born in Dallas, the wunderkind actor launched her career at the tender age of five.
  — Jessica Andrews, Teen Vogue, 5 Nov. 2018
• That hasn’t stopped Buterin, a 28-year-old crypto wunderkind, from having a slew of lofty plans.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
• All were in games started by wunderkind QB Patrick Mahomes.
  — Ken Pomponio, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 28 Jan. 2020
• The disgraced artworld wunderkind’s assets were frozen by a U.K. court.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2021
• At age 22, the rookie quarterback from Missouri is a project, not a wunderkind.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• And over the years there have been no shortage of companies eager to attach themselves to the woke wunderkind.
  — Lola Ogunnaike, Marie Claire, 12 Sep. 2021
• Dieng, who played with wunderkind Victor Wembanyama, matched a team-high with 10 points in the gold medal game.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 22 June 2022
• If convicted at the end of the trial, which is expected to last around a month, the one-time crypto wunderkind could face decades in prison.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• Only the emergence of a dazzling wunderkind, the 24-year-old William Pitt the Younger, brought the nation 18 years of sure-footed government.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• That would mark a new, more mature phase for the Silicon Valley wunderkind.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• From the Atlanta-area town of Woodstock, Swank has been considered by many a wunderkind of race car driving.
  — NBC News, 24 May 2021
• Freddie Kitchens always wanted to be a head coach, but he was never deemed the sort of wunderkind who gets a pass on paying his dues.
  — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• One of those players is wunderkind David Ochoa, an 18-year-old goalkeeper.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2019
• And now, rapper Kid Cudi is standing up for rap's wunderkind.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
• Before the World Cup, the 27-year-old former wunderkind had made just 11 appearances for his country.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 24 June 2018
• Journalists were calling me a wunderkind and a guru; my name was even added to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list.
  — Alex Daly, Glamour, 13 May 2019
• And the visionary's vote of confidence in the 25-year-old wunderkind has, indeed, proven fruitful.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2019
• But in reality, the wunderkind struggled in his first stint in the show and was optioned back to Triple-A after a little more than two weeks.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
• Once the wunderkind of Connecticut politics, Murphy is standing for reelection as a 50-year-old, still the youngest member of the delegation.
  — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024