How to Use intelligent in a Sentence

intelligent

adjective

• He's a hard worker but he's not very intelligent.
• She asked some intelligent questions.
• And the intelligent man on the street is going to say that’s a bunch of baloney.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
• The intelligent man on the street is going to say that’s a bunch of baloney.
  — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
• That is a book about the caracara, which is a very intelligent bird.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• The poor, some experts say, are less intelligent than the rich.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• Even the most intelligent of folks were tempted by the chance to pierce the veil, noted the critic.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
• Then again, even intelligent aliens might be too busy or too shy to send messages to the stars.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 10 Sep. 2020
• Native to the West Coast, the playful and intelligent creatures can live for up to 30 years.
  — Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
• She was thought of as being one of the most intelligent people of that time.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 June 2024
• And so, who would have thought that that leads to something that could be called intelligent?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2023
• The intelligent way to be selfish is to work for the welfare of others.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
• People were very sweet, very open, and there’s a lot of film lovers there who are very intelligent.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 5 May 2020
• People were very sweet, very open, and there’s a lot of film lovers there who are very intelligent.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• The help of important people and the intelligent use of resources will likely land you at the top of the heap in March.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 7 Oct. 2020
• But not even the most intelligent can solve that equation.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2017
• Why do some of the world’s most intelligent people sign on for a lifetime of pipetting?
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• Maybe not just more intelligent, but maybe even more wise.
  — Carrie Rubinstein, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• These jays are intelligent and are known to slip through treetops to rob nests of other birds.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
• The thing about Nickel Boys is its a film that is more intelligent than its maker.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
• Kitty was intelligent, but known to have a sharp tongue.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 July 2023
• No proper, intelligent attempt was made to ‘live with’ the virus.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 21 Sep. 2020
• What’s more, Johnson was always one of the most intelligent players on the field.
  — cleveland, 23 Mar. 2021
• Zuri is intelligent, feisty and easy to train, Simpson said.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
• Icy is intelligent, friendly and driven by the need for speed.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
• But the rage and the sense of revenge or justice has blotted out most intelligent discourse.
  — Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• The book portrays the African girls as beautiful and intelligent and the father as noble and wise.
  — John Blake, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
• But the rise of intelligent machines means that could change soon, perhaps in our own lifetimes.
  — NBC News, 25 Aug. 2019
• Across a wide network, each unit can become intelligent by deploying state-of-the-art technologies and AI, but also by gaining easy access to insights from more successful locations.
  — Andrei Danescu, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• Doberman pinschers are sleek and powerful, and also very intelligent.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025