How to Use egghead in a Sentence

egghead

noun

• It was originally envisioned as something that could help collegiate men (aka eggheads) toughen up and prepare for fighting the wars of empire.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
• The guiding principle of Buttigiegism seems to be that for every political question, there is an egghead somewhere who has the answer, and the job of the president is to find that egghead or to be him.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
• A lot of this work is almost unreadable now, the pained efforts of young eggheads twisting themselves into rhetorical knots over the moral conundrums posed by real-world applications of Marxist principles.
  — Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
• At the same time, fencing is also touting is status as an Ivy League favorite, a discipline that has historically appealed to artists and egghead-y types including engineers, architects, finance and technical wizards, as well as artists.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 May 2026
• Like a small-town freshman who can’t navigate his huge new college campus, Professor Nieuwendyk misses most of his (fake) classes to spend time with Mona Margadoff (Mary Steenburgen), a music theory instructor whose impulsive spirit proves irresistible to the ever-sensible egghead.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2025