How to Use literature in a Sentence

literature

noun
  • Can you send me some literature about your product?
  • She took courses in history and literature.
  • Her education gave her an appreciation for great literature.
  • He's an expert in American literature.
  • These are the questions at the heart of noir, of every literature of alienation.
    David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Color Purple is one of the most important books in the canon of world literature.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Academia had slowly killed the literature in her, Ypi told me.
    Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2023
  • In this novel, fame is a threat: The writer who seeks it may forfeit the silence at the heart of literature.
    Sofia Samatar, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • In recent years, the pair that was once confined to the world of children’s literature crossed into the realm of pop culture.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But, if used correctly over the course of three or four months, Rhee says, the alarms can have a high success rate—the literature puts it at around 75%.
    Haley Weiss, Time, 24 July 2023
  • The film follows the story of Gabriel (Caio Macedo), a young literature teacher, who has just moved to Rio.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The others are prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine and literature.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Each one cost a penny, and the serial literature was aimed at the working class.
    Laura Zornosa, Time, 7 July 2023
  • At the second stop, those turning in guns received their gift cards, a free gun lock and literature on gun safety.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 5 June 2023
  • In 2019 a group of international researchers looked through the literature and again found the link to be lacking.
    WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • There's also a fitness room, a sauna, an on-deck hot tub, and a library filled with maritime and polar literature.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The 60-minute performances showcase six major works of Ancient Greek literature so guests can get a little taste of the best.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2023
  • Critics were hailing hip-hop as a form of popular literature, akin to the blues in the early 20th century.
    Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • San Diego was also a city that was and still is, for the most part, not the subject of nearly as much literature, art, music and film as our neighbors to the north in California.
    Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The results in the literature are not overwhelmingly good.
    Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But those who want to make confident claims about the state of literature — and the world — now, as Epstein does, are under some obligation to get out of the bubble bath and slip their toes into the sea.
    Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • The bears soon found a welcoming habitat in literature and pop culture.
    Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The literature passed around in the psych wards and treatment centers and online always referenced a woman getting abused by a man.
    Kyle Dillon Hertz, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
  • If none of those catch your eye, there are two red Porsche tractors, along with over 500 museum-grade accessories, parts, tools, and literature.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Black literature and music found its voice in those moments.
    Debra Kamin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Jennings does some of his most entertaining writing in the less-devout sections of the book: those that address how literature, movies and TV have dealt with the subject.
    Nicholas Cannariato, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • The character comes from a short story published in 1919 by Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • The timings from Macallan’s own literature suggests this is unlikely, which leaves us with the exciting prospect of more unique bottle designs yet to emerge.
    Mark Littler, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • But, as Morante knew, fantasy is also the basis of literature.
    Jess Bergman, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
  • That in and of itself reads like literature from a crisis pregnancy center.
    WIRED, 24 Oct. 2023

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