Sample Sentences forintellectgrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
intellect as in: relies on her intellect
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She relies on her sharp intellect to debate complex political issues.
intellect = ability to think and reason
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The poem’s beauty appeals to the emotions, but it also challenges the intellect.
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There was no reason for me to be automatically in awe of the wit and intellect of these New Yorkers.† (source)
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Rory's words made rational sense, but hunger and fear had a way of overpowering intellect.† (source)
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He felt a strange, perverse, immense presence that could never be understood by human intellect.† (source)
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Long division will stretch his intellect such as it is, God help us.† (source)
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Friends said that the child combined the best portions of Sarai's sensitivity and Sol's intellect.† (source)
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Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.† (source)
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Laughter and infinite intellect and then the round-checked face, the bud mouth.† (source)
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As a young man, I was unlike McCandless in many important regards; most notably, I possessed neither his intellect nor his lofty ideals.† (source)
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A lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality.† (source)
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Although being smart and sensitive made his extended time in solitary confinement especially destructive, he had managed to educate himself, read hundreds of books, and write poetry and short stories that reflected an eager, robust intellect.† (source)
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In some lecture hall, this lad with a hint of a moustache had presumably admired his fellow student for the sharpness of her intellect and the seriousness of her mien.† (source)
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For Nadia this person was her cousin, a man of considerable determination and intellect, who even when he was young had never cared much for play, who seemed to laugh only rarely, who had won medals in school and decided to become a doctor, who had successfully emigrated abroad, who returned once a year to visit his parents, and who, along with eighty-five others, was blown by a truck bomb to bits, literally to bits, the largest of which, in Nadia's cousin's case, were a head and two-thirds of an arm.† (source)
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intellect as in: is a formidable intellect
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She is a formidable intellect who is reshaping the entire field of moral philosophy.
intellect = high-level thinker
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The university invited some of the greatest intellects to speak at the symposium.intellects = people who are good at or spend much time studying, thinking, and reasoning
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Though she was a brilliant scientist, she felt humbled when surrounded by the formidable intellects at the research summit.intellects = high-level thinkers
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If we have enough of them they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.† (source)
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The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts.† (source)
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But while hapless Dough-Boy was by nature dull and torpid in his intellects, Pip, though over tender-hearted, was at bottom very bright, with that pleasant, genial, jolly brightness peculiar to his tribe; a tribe, which ever enjoy all holidays and festivities with finer, freer relish than any other race.† (source)
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The people who've got these intellects, they're smart, aren't they?† (source)
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We have our minor powers because of our major intellects.† (source)
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He had one of those refined discriminating intellects whose powers of logic were more than equal to my powers of obfuscation.† (source)
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Our intellects are far more powerful than yours, but there is something in your minds that has always eluded us.† (source)
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They know I have no use for surgical aphorisms such as "When in doubt, cut it out" or "Why wait when you can operate" other than for how reliably they reveal the shallowest intellects in our field.† (source)
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It was too much for the old priest's intellects.† (source)
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I have reason to think that Joe's intellects were brightened by the encounter they had passed through, and that on our way to Pumblechook's he invented a subtle and deep design.† (source)
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Why, every one in the monastery cherished the same thought and the same hope, even those whose intellects Alyosha revered, Father Paissy himself, for instance.† (source)
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