How to Use savant in a Sentence

savant

noun
  • Acuff is more of a savant in pick-and-roll.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • The street style savant also gave us a case study in going-out attire.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 12 Mar. 2025
  • He’s made athletes like Daniel Gafford look like savants.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The pop savant's last album — Breathe In.
    — Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Craig is an absolute savant of a writer.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • On a team full of scoring savants, Pachulia is a low-post plodder.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 15 May 2017
  • 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
  • His sons were lauded as 20-something savants.
    — James D. Walsh, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Who knows, but what makes Porter such a basketball savant anyway?
    — Tod Palmer, kansascity, 18 Aug. 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
  • Standing 6-2, he’s been touted as a skilled shot creator and a midrange savant.
    — cleveland, 14 June 2022
  • Kehlani is steadily stepping into the role of fashion savant.
    — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2018
  • These wedding savants who have arranged nuptials big and small, far and wide, and some for the pages of Vogue.
    — Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Australia is the almost arbitrary place where this savant of letters was born.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 4 May 2018
  • 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
  • Both are defensive savants and both score the majority of their points on rolls to the basket.
    — Broderick Turner, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Indy Officinalis is proven to be one with nature and a land savant.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 30 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • The test-taking savant who helped rich kids cheat their way into elite colleges was sentenced Friday.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
  • And Michael Hodges is musically inclined and, uh, a savant in many ways.
    — Craig Lindsey, Houston Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Math is commonly portrayed as something only prodigies and savants can do.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The custom sneaker design savant has rose to prominence over the last decade as one of the most prolific cobblers in the world.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Goal-scoring savant David Villa remains the fulcrum of this squad.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2018
  • But don’t expect Rush to follow in the footsteps of fellow red beard savant Turner.
    — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 23 Jan. 2018
  • But the pop savant soon realized the goofy portmanteau spoke quite seriously to her current state of mind.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Kelly was the hot name, the offensive savant who went 46-7 at Oregon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2021

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