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.
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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.
— Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
But the rise of intelligent machines means that could change soon, perhaps in our own lifetimes.
— NBC News, 25 Aug. 2019 -
There was a kind of sense of intelligent nostalgia in there.
— Jeff Conway, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024 -
Cats are highly intelligent and many of them are amenable to learning tricks — or, as cats would put it, teaching you to give them treats.
— Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee.com, 9 June 2017 -
This number alone boosts the hope of finding intelligent life.
— Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018 -
The i7 has intelligent mapping that learns your home, navigating to where the mess is.
— Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023 -
But making claims of intelligent life in other parts of the universe?
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Mar. 2017 -
And these creatures are keenly intelligent, another thing that set House of the Dead apart.
— Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024 -
The circulation of this paper is not among the lower classes: on the contrary, its principal clientele is among the more intelligent people.
— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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