Example sentences for: learnt

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

  • 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.

  • I am sure that I would have learnt something and regret having been turned away.

  • "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.

  • Earlier, on page 49, we learnt about Agnodice, “who lived to become the world's first known woman gynaecologist,” in the fourth century BC.


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