Example sentences for: illiterate

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

  • When a troubled and illiterate 19-year-old can receive life imprisonment for committing three muggings, it seems laughably irrelevant to focus on courtroom procedures.

  • Bumpersticker seen the other day: Illiterate?

  • I was on a recent talk show, where the host referred to speakers of Black English as illiterate thugs.

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

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


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