Example sentences for: literate

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

  • Like academia, industry needs scientifically literate personnel; unlike academia, industry wants employees with business savvy as well.

  • I suspect that the new policy, rather than being a reflection of changes in the speech of literate Britons, is a nod—or perhaps a resigned shrug—in the direction of overseas English speakers, since the new pronunciations conform with those of at least some overseas speakers, among them, Americans.

  • Despite uprisings such as that of the Ciompi (wool-workers), the resilient Florentines were well-fed and highly literate compared to the rest of the country.

  • Most of us in literate America know better than to buy, read, or in any other way attend to Washington memoirs.

  • (Tony Gilroy and Jonathan Lemkin's script for The Devil's Advocate was witty and literate; Anderson's for Boogie Nights was not.)


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