How to Use intellect in a Sentence

intellect

noun

• She has a sharp intellect.
• We were required to read a book every week in order to develop our intellects.
• She is a woman of superior intellect.
• This guy was off the charts as far as intellect was concerned.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 13 Feb. 2017
• This guy was off the charts as far as intellect was concerned.
  — Sam Kashner, VanityFair.com, 19 June 2017
• And that’s a real tragedy for a man with such a keen intellect.
  — Michael Norman, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019
• Degas, more an artist of the intellect than of the heart, takes more work.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• His ebullience, keen intellect and warmth jump off the pages.
  — John Blake, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
• This is not a failure of intellect.
  — Benjamin D. Summers, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• But there will still be others who have to rely on grit and intellect.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
• Let your intellect lead the way and your charm win the hearts of those who can make your life complete.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
• How could all their passion and intellect be allowed to go to waste?
  — Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
• The force of her intellect and talent quickened the pace of the trees.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2019
• The late pope blessed the church and the world with his intellect and holiness.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 4 Jan. 2023
• Does this sound like a trivial use of the human intellect?
  — Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
• Phil, while a studied intellect, seems to never take off his chaps.
  — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2021
• As an actor, his instincts were spot-on, but his intellect would screw it all up.
  — Stuart Miller, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• Young has a precise, strong arm combined with a keen intellect.
  — Eric Sondheimercolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
• Maybe the judge presiding will have the courage and intellect to break up this cesspool of crime.
  — Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
• My intellect is very high in the ring and no one gives me credit,’’ Wilder said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• But she will also be remembered for the force of her intellect and drive.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 27 Mar. 2022
• Women are raised from infancy to chase the male gaze rather than the male intellect.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• The football intellect of this trio showed through the first seven weeks of the season.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 18 Nov. 2021
• The answer to the first question might lie with that intellect Brees spoke of.
  — Luke Johnson, nola.com, 28 June 2019
• But he’s also never been daunted by her intellect or her artistry.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2026
• Of all the stuff ailing living in the land of the free, none is more dire than our crisis of intellect.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 June 2021
• One reads him not only for his prose but also for the chance to observe a great and restless intellect.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 20 June 2019
• But she was struck by his passion, intellect and study of the social justice figures of the past.
  — Emily Cochrane Jon Cherry, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• The whole address was strong and pointed, and stamped her as a woman of brilliant intellect.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2022
• Gnostics stress the intellect, while Pelagians stress the will.
  — Thomas Reese, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018