Sentence examples for clever son from inspiring English sources

Tory's clever son, Tom, intent on discovering his own comet, spends his nights on the privy roof because it's "the best place for observing the stars".

Ken Clarke's dad was a watchmaker whose clever son went to Nottingham High – like Ed Balls – and on to Cambridge to become a lawyer.

Another says that school admission based on residence promotes segregation: his clever son could not attend a good mixed school but had to go to a mediocre, heavily Pakistani one instead.

He expected his clever son, a grammar school boy, to continue his education and the model for this was Parsons' uncle Ken, Victor's brother, who in the 1930s had won a place at Cambridge.

The first ended at 16, when he escaped a home dominated by his depressed father, who was the clever son of a drunk who had refused to let him go to school past 14 and for whom class war had become the only way to make sense of his own reality.

The clever son of working-class parents living in east Kent (his mother had been a housemaid), Heath rose via a scholarship to Balliol college, Oxford ("effortless superiority"), and a brush –quite literally – with Hitler to become Churchill's last deputy chief whip.

It was indeed a strange marriage, but it lasted the rest of Empson's life, and produced two striking and clever sons.

Myron Flaxbaum teaches Latin at Caldicott Academy (the same school that featured in the title story of "Honeydew" — Pearlman enjoys linking her tales); his wife, Bonnie, is a nurse; and there are three noisy, clever sons, Sean, Leo, and Felix.

When I tried to point that out, my ever clever sons replied "I meant smart, that's the S word".

Ever pragmatic, the lords of the realm weighed the odds and negotiated a deal: Stephen could quietly live out his years of kingship; subsequently, Matilda's clever, forceful son would succeed him on the throne.

A literate, book-hungry servant, Jemima had been exposed briefly to London life before her shotgun wedding to Hardy's father, a rural builder who proved, like his wife, a conscientious parent to their clever, undersize son, whom they provided with a nonconformist education and then apprenticed to an architect.