Example sentences for: illiterate

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

  • But this too would have risked embarrassment, since Clinton is an acknowledged computer illiterate and can't type.

  • My hosts were always calm and kind in putting up with the odd foreigner who was bound to find larger signals gross and yet to miss nuances altogether, coming across as deaf, dumb, and functionally illiterate.

  • Although illiterate, Akbar had enormous intellectual curiosity.

  • Or perhaps it was the strong Celtic-Druid emphasis on oral transmission that led to the situation at the beginning of this century that while Scotland had over 230,000 who spoke Gaelic (many of whom, however, also spoke English), the majority was technically illiterate in Gaelic, being unable to read or write in their own tongue.

  • Mothers who failed to read a sentence out loud in Spanish (from daily life) were classified as illiterate (25/493).


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