artful

Example Sentences

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Wouldn’t it be like this subtly sly author if the announcement turned out to be a narrative conceit—one last artful trick to cheat the end from arriving?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

In recent years, India has been promoting the ancient practice of yoga by holding an annual global yoga day and artful graffiti of yoga poses have been painted across cities, including in the capital Delhi.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

She was an artful, innovative interpreter of other people’s songs, in the vein of Frank Sinatra, in an era when audiences—and especially critics—were exalting the singer-songwriter model instead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Frank Gehry, who died Friday at 96, challenged the notion that buildings needed to behave themselves — creating artful, strange, kinetic combinations of structure, material, form and light, and transforming cities in the process.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

“Well, Nephew,” he said with an artful swish of his robes, one that had taken him over a decade to perfect.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill