Example sentences for: literate

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

  • Their differences from Elvis (more literate and lovable, less slick and racially ambiguous) were what made their similarities with Elvis (purveyors of courtship music for teen-agers, a scandal to grown-ups) work.

  • 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.

  • "If people are relatively sophisticated, relatively literate and have cool judgment so they can express themselves well and listen well, they can probably handle this themselves," he said.

  • "As literate and understated as one could expect" from Hollywood, says the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan.

  • Now that certain (very literate) people have taken hold of Esperanto and published novels and poetry in it, its chief function as a means of basic communication has been violated, and with the onset of its sophistication it has become more complex, thus defeating its original purpose.


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