Example sentences for: illiterate

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

  • News Quiz participants scorn not just electronic greeting cards, but all greeting cards as prepackaged expressions of sentiment for the emotionally illiterate.

  • Forty percent of adult Arabs are illiterate, two-thirds of them women.

  • (And with a quarter of high-school seniors being rated functionally illiterate on standard reading tests, it seems pretty clear that some additional stimulation is needed.)

  • They also say that the better-educated Jewish buyers had duped illiterate peasants into selling property.

  • Mothers who failed to read a sentence out loud in Spanish (from daily life) were classified as illiterate.


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