Example sentences for: literacy

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

  • Univariate analyses showed a positive correlation between reporting that breastfeeding was "very good" for the child and the following variables: more than five years of education (p < 0.0001), Latin ethnicity (p < 0.0001), middle/upper class background (p < 0.0001), and literacy (p = 0.0019) Table 3).

  • --Part of its Literacy Is for Losers campaign, "Books: They're boring and stupid!"

  • Klein is never more penetrating than in the book's first scene, in which the ingenuous black narrator, Henry Burton, marvels at the way in which the candidate, Jack Stanton, the governor of a small Southern state, listens intently to the members of an urban literacy group, grasps their hands, recounts the experiences of his own poor family, and leaves them feeling heard, understood, and moved.

  • This is demonstrated in a variety of ways: a shared literacy and the assumptions and biases that go with it; an awareness of what books are for; consciousness and use of innumerable cultural allusions and educated idioms; and a relative ease in reading a periodical called VERBATIM, with sections called OBITER DICTA and EPISTOLAE.

  • I am the president of the Literacy Council of Garland County, Ark.


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