Example sentences for: intellect

How can you use “intellect” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • … A faux-profile picks a man of the millennium: "With his cartwheeling intellect and generous heart; with his revolutionary brain and conservative gut ...

  • In a recent column lauding Bush, Will recalls the contest between three book-writers for president in 1912--Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft--noting that "such intellect in politics is rare, and perhaps should be."

  • They use language, humor, and a verbal fun activity to challenge a child’s intellect.

  • The OED2e lists about five dozen -ard words to describe people of unsavory character or underdeveloped intellect, and all but the handful above now languish in dusty disuse.

  • Critics such as Kazin and writers such as Saul Bellow--born the same year as Kazin--stretched out their intellect and imagination across disparate worlds and helped a generation of book-hungry immigrant offspring walk into American cultural life.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast