Example sentences for: scholarly

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

  • The governor, a scholarly retired naval officer with good intentions, was accompanied by a contingent of 80 Spanish soldiers, most of retirement age.

  • A frequent ploy in reviewing scholarly books is for the reviewer to chide the writer for not having written the book he would like to have read.

  • With the advance of literacy that came with printing and the use of Latin as a scholarly lingua franca, Bacon and Milton wrote in Latin as well as in English.

  • In assessing the popular German reaction to Nazi violence generally and Kristallnacht in particular, I quoted Goldhagen's authoritative scholarly source, Israeli historian David Bankier, as well as Kershaw:

  • Members of scholarly journals' editorial boards rarely edit; they are guarantors of the journals' intellectual integrity--which is to say, they're figureheads.


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