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.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], 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
• That requires a certain amount of very intelligent imagination.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 28 Nov. 2024
• Besides maintaining control of one’s own emotions, an emotionally intelligent leader is aware of their team members’ emotions and motivations.
  — Leen Kawas, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024