INTELLIGENT in a Sentence

Learn INTELLIGENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
271 example sentences for INTELLIGENT, such as:
1. The dolphin is an intelligent animal.
2. He is too intelligent to believe that the U.
3. Her keen, intelligent eyes never left my face.
4. I repute him as an intelligent for a long time.
5. He is far too intelligent to utter such fatuous remarks.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of INTELLIGENT
intelligent
 a.  exercising or showing good judgment
 a.  endowed with the capacity to reason
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  To the credit of the negroes, including the least intelligent of them, few were actuated by malice and those few had usually been "mean niggers" even in slave days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  The Swiss are a very intelligent race and keenly alive to architectural beauty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
3  The inhabitants of the Humble Home were supposed to be amiable and intelligent.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  Carol was discovering that the one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  With Vida as lieutenant and unofficial commander she campaigned for a village nurse to attend poor families, raised the fund herself, saw to it that the nurse was young and strong and amiable and intelligent.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  I'd heard he was eccentric, but really, I found him quite intelligent.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  And I'd been having lots of fun dancing with the nicest young farmer, so strong and nice, and awfully intelligent.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  But all the courageous intelligent people are fighting him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  And that is the reason why a young buck with an intelligent looking calf's head before him, is somehow one of the saddest sights you can see.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
10  I would have you investigate it now with the sole view of forming to yourself some unexaggerated, intelligent estimate of whatever battering-ram power may be lodged there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
11  How well I remember her laugh; it had in it the same sudden recognition that flashed into her eyes, was a burst of humour, short and intelligent.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
12  Her keen, intelligent eyes never left my face.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
13  The younger one did not look up; he was submerged in his own feelings, but his brother met me with intelligent grey eyes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
14  The murder at Shelbyville is only a verification of what every intelligent man knew would come, because with a mob a rumor is as good as a proof.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
15  Mrs. Highcamp was a worldly but unaffected, intelligent, slim, tall blonde woman in the forties, with an indifferent manner and blue eyes that stared.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  With the right licensing credential, customers will look to you to help them make intelligent buying decisions.
2  He is far too intelligent to utter such fatuous remarks.
3  To be merely intelligent or industrious is not enough; only those with both succeed.
4  I repute him as an intelligent for a long time.
5  Lemurs are nocturnal mammals and have many simian characteristics, although they are less intelligent than monkeys.
6  Without considering any evidence that might challenge his anthropocentric viewpoint, Hector categorically maintained that dolphins could not be as intelligent as men.
7  If I claim your arguments are idiotic, then the corollary is that my arguments are intelligent.
8  A marine biologist insisted that dolphins, which are considered to be one of the most intelligent mammals, like to help the helpless.
9  If a dolphin is an intelligent agent, would we not include it as a likely candidate?
10  Professor Hawking says that in the coming millennium genetic engineering will succeed in making human beings more intelligent, with larger brains.
11  Because you know, every intelligent person knows, that the physical is the basis for the mental and the moral.
12  The dolphin is an intelligent animal.
13  The most frightening assumption in this world is that most people assume you are intelligent.
14  He is too intelligent to believe that the U.
15  Throughout history, people have been intrigued by the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.