Example sentences for: intellectual

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

  • Butterworths Medical Dictionary, 1978: A form of mental disorder in which the cognitive and intellectual functions of the mind are prominently or predominantly affected; invariably a symptom of organic cerebral disease, and as a rule, impairment of memory is one of the earliest symptoms.

  • Because espionage is such a small part of the business of intelligence--as compared with the purely intellectual work of analysis--none of the above would matter very much if the CIA could still attract the smartest graduates from the best universities.

  • In discussing a time when black men and women with an intellectual vocation were deprived of the chance to make a living through the pen, there is a case for looking in American black life for the places to which those thwarted thinkers diverted their energies.

  • For all his elegiac rumination, though, Steiner does not lack a polemicist's instinct for the intellectual or ideological "hot spot."

  • He set up a magazine, Vuelta , to pursue intellectual inquiry free of the Mexican left's more overblown rhetoric.


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