Example sentences for: illiterate

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

  • For clients who are illiterate in any language, materials would have to be carefully explained to them.

  • (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.)

  • The research conditions Hamza describes are appalling: Immense pressure is reinforced by torture, and all operations are overseen by a controlling but "illiterate" ogre--Saddam Hussein.

  • The last thing an illiterate person wants to advertise is the fact that he can't read.

  • And given that fact, I would argue that as long as the educational system teaches dictionary definitions as giving lexical meaning and grammatically proper structures as carrying grammatically meaning, we will have (as we do now) the vast bulk of our population functionally illiterate.


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