Example sentences for: self-educated

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

  • A fine scholar, a self-educated and proud man, but one whose favorite recreation was riding a huge tandem tricycle around Oxford and the surrounding countryside.

  • Subtler still is the label “self-educated” applied to people who have little formal learning.

  • Self-educated visionary Cola di Rienzo governed briefly in 1347 until the nobles drove him out.

  • Self-educated, poor beyond imagining, John Clare experienced a brief, condescending vogue as England's "Peasant Poet," at a time when illiteracy was a norm for England's rural workers, and poets were expected to come from higher social ranks.


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