Example sentences for: erudite

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

  • The code of schoolboy honour remained steadfast, as did the erudite smattering of French and Latin phrases and quotations from the Bible and Shakespeare that made Frank Richard's school tales educational as well as entertaining.

  • Such erudite allusion could also add to the kinky mixing of high and low, as when Bonnard put high heels on a model posed as the Medici Venus (, 1931).

  • In his characteristically diverting and obscurely erudite way, Pennington describes this discrepancy between public perception and magnitude of risk by referring to an article on railway accidents published in 1859 by one Dionysius Lardner.

  • Critics applaud Huston's wicked performance and the renovations to the tale--this Cinderella is erudite, resourceful, and independent.

  • Few writers of school tales were as erudite as this shy scholar, who once wrote a Bunter tale in Latin, which was printed in an issue of The Times Educational Supplement in 1960.


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