Example sentences for: literary

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

  • I've seen it argued that the languages immigrants give up are not useful ones, or ones with literary cultures worth preserving.

  • It was a foreigner, German Emperor Frederick II, who launched the movement for a national language at his court in Palermo, but Florentine-born Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) provided the ardor, moral leadership, and literary example to bring it to fruition.

  • He left her at home to care for the children and type his work while he schmoozed at London literary parties.

  • But the same editors do not select ordinary readers to review novels, they pick other novelists or professional literary critics, in other words, reviewers who are competent to assess the work because they have a broad background in the literature and are recognized as knowledgeable about the genre.

  • For lay readers and students who are not familiar with the prevailing concepts of mainstream linguistics, stylistics, and literary analysis, Mills's Introduction provides a helpful explication of current theories and positions in these disciplines.


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