Example sentences for: academics

How can you use “academics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A notable exception in the United States is William Labov; but, despite his open, readable style, Labov's work is known mainly to academics because it appears in scholarly journals and in books distributed largely to the academic market.

  • The membership of the Commission consisted of representatives from the bench and bar, including many long-term supporters of legal services, academics, and business, labor and religious leaders, as well as representatives of the provider community.

  • Oddly enough, the more unworldly sorts of academics run the risk of this self-imposed isolation because their particular dialect renders them incapable of being understood outside a very restricted circle.

  • "It is a pretty portrait, and one can understand how many people (including some gullible American academics) wish it to be an early image of one of our most-loved novelists," wrote Aileen Ribeiro, a disgruntled costume historian.

  • Generally speaking, it takes art away from the theory people, from the academics with their 10-pound books and their unbearable jargon, and allows real life to come shining through.


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