INTELLECTUAL in a Sentence

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1. He read a lot so as to learn about the intellectual history of Europe.
2. High levels of lead could damage the intellectual development of children.
3. UK organisations are not nourishing their intellectual and emotional capital.
4. For him thinking is intellectual labor as if it had an action dimension to it.
5. Companies should protect their intellectual property with patents and trademarks.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTELLECTUAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intellectual
 n.  of intellect; showing intellect; requiring the use of the mind, rather than emotions or instinct
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  The bridesmaids, down to little Jane Gradgrind, were, in an intellectual point of view, fit helpmates for the calculating boy; and there was no nonsense about any of the company.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
2  We're only cerebrating make-shifts, mechanical and intellectual experiments.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  'Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum,' said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  In passing from the bucolic to the intellectual life the intermediate stages are usually two at least, frequently many more; and one of those stages is almost sure to be worldly advanced.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
5  We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
6  I beg that you will look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual problem.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
7  That the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
8  You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
9  Charles Augustus Milverton was a man of fifty, with a large, intellectual head, a round, plump, hairless face, a perpetual frozen smile, and two keen gray eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, gold-rimmed glasses.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
10  As I went with them the memory of my confident anticipations of a profoundly grave and intellectual posterity came, with irresistible merriment, to my mind.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
11  And in a state of physical balance and security, power, intellectual as well as physical, would be out of place.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
12  I might have consoled myself by imagining the little people had put the mechanism in some shelter for me, had I not felt assured of their physical and intellectual inadequacy.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
13  However great their intellectual degradation, the Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy, and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  And at first I was so much surprised by this ancient monument of an intellectual age, that I gave no thought to the possibilities it presented.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
15  It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  This boom in adult education, in turn, helps to raise the intellectual standard of the whole country.
2  UK organisations are not nourishing their intellectual and emotional capital.
3  This is the academic discipline which is the intellectual concept of both theories and methods.
4  High levels of lead could damage the intellectual development of children.
5  He read a lot so as to learn about the intellectual history of Europe.
6  For him thinking is intellectual labor as if it had an action dimension to it.
7  Companies should protect their intellectual property with patents and trademarks.
8  There was a significant decline in the size of the business as the company transitioned to an intellectual property company.
9  Hilary Rosen, of the Recording Industry Association of America: American intellectual property is our nation's greatest trade asset.
10  US officials fear that the treaty might undermine the commercial protection afforded to gene tech companies through the World Trade Organisation deal on intellectual property rights.
11  In the film Funny Face, the bookish heroine used to disdain fashion models for their lack of intellectual interests.
12  Internationally he's known among finance ministers for his grasp of detail and his intellectual rigor.
13  We admired his intellectual providence to acquire vast stores of dry information.
14  Kennedy and 97 other senators voted 98-0 to confirm Scalia, Bork's intellectual soulmate, obviously, the Bork episode was not about jurisprudence.
15  Her father, who flogs knackered cars, despises his solitary, inscrutable, intellectual child and insists that she join the family around the television.