Sentence examples for a clever device from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a clever device" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an object or method that is innovative or skillfully designed to achieve a specific purpose.
Example: "The author introduced a clever device in the plot that kept readers guessing until the very end."
Alternatives: "an ingenious tool" or "a smart mechanism."

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Hugo Lloris: "It was a clever device.

Hubbell's death was a clever device but also, through the first two episodes, a downer.

The play is a clever device, but it raises more questions than it answers.

So it was a clever device to turn the shrinks loose on fictional females.

It's a clever device, but 1933 was a long time ago, too.

Whatever the fish means, it's a clever device to hook audiences.

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It's a very clever device, a little piece of brilliance, but that's how you identify yourself these days.

It's a very clever device".

This is a very clever device to enable the taxing district of Shelby county to sustain its government by taxation upon interstate commerce.

The slowness, in both the music – Prince meets Cocteau Twins – and director Nabil Elderkin's imagery, is a deliberate, clever device, interrupting the incessant speed of the internet age.

He is a wickedly clever device, played with casual, slightly inebriated delight by Mr. Gerroll, employing the accent of a British aristocrat and the carelessly selfish air of a new-moneyed gazillionaire.

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