How to Use "savant" with Example Sentences

1. Baker was a professor of poultry science , and a chicken savant .
2. Mary meinel is a savant , considered a genius in some ways .
3. " Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine , " wrote jeff jarvis , a new-media savant , after the service beat mainstream media to news about the earthquake that struck china 's sichuan province in may 2008 .
4. Until recently , the feeling among many researchers was that the first two features were crucial to someone becoming a savant . The idea was that mental resources which would have been used for interaction and communication could be redeployed to develop expertise in some arbitrary task .