Example sentences for: intellectuals

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

  • When World War II ended, Orwell became preoccupied with Stalin's power grab in Eastern Europe and the way those whom he saw as dishonest intellectuals in the West were abetting it.

  • Intellectuals, who had been harried by the Qin, were encouraged in their creative endeavors; with the invention of paper, the influence of their writings spread.

  • But he knows that Saddam's brand of nationalism is as much of a dead end as Nasser's proved to be, and he worries that so many Arab intellectuals seem not to mind being taken for another ride.

  • Bell may have been one of the more sparkling of the New York intellectuals in his heyday; and he was also, of course, a writer for Henry Luce's Fortune in the '50s (and has even retained some Time-ese tics, such as referring to Plato in a footnote as "the famed Greek philosopher").

  • It’s now decidedly bourgeois, although the original Kranzler at the west end of Unter den Linden between Friedrichstraße and the Brandenburg Gate was a hotbed of radical intellectuals in 1848.


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