Example sentences for: learnt

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

  • Literally, leaving out the tovo as redundant in English, this proverb means What Johnnie hasn't learnt, John won't learn.

  • I had already learnt that although there is no idiomatic way in English of asking such a question, it is very common in Malayalam and also, I think, in other Indian vernaculars.

  • By overloading the proverb with little and old in What little Johnnie hasn't learnt, old John will not learn, the translator (here a traditore, indeed) has killed the clever implication inherent in the play on names, perhaps in a fumbled attempt to bear out his claim that Russian proverbs are relatively brief.

  • Because we were an alien family, dad and mum were very keen that we learnt how to compose ourselves in this new society.

  • "Our parents learnt from the great depression, made deeper and more lethal by rising trade barriers from which came the twin tyrannies of our age, fascism and Marxism, thus war; hot and cold.


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