Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Thus the elderly engineers who also live at Isaac's boarding house opine about the nature of matter and spirit, the "seven mosquitoes of the Apocalypse," and other semi-intellectual, semi-jocular subjects.

From Reuters • May 14, 2010

It was to be a semi-intellectual merrymaking, but Dr. Knight said: At the Ashville, N.C.,

From Time Magazine Archive

Every so often, the semi-intellectual communities at the fringes of the arts, the universities, and the communications industries are hit by a new book, which becomes a fad or a parlor game.

From Time Magazine Archive

His father, a diplomatist, had been dead fifteen years; his mother was well known in the semi-intellectual circles of society.

From Beyond by Galsworthy, John

I believe I am not perpetrating a neologism bolder than this when I say that the force of which I am speaking has seemed to me to belong to the semi-intellectual plane.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille