How to Use erudite in a Sentence

erudite

adjective

• This gives the book the feel of a late-night dorm-room bull session of an erudite sort.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• Many of the erudite friends of the U.S. diplomats disappeared.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2023
• Grab a copy of one of these page-turners and start living the life of the erudite sofa spud.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 23 Dec. 2019
• And the erudite charmer who was her first long-term boyfriend and who died of cirrhosis of the liver in his 40s.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• There was always a sense of the erudite, a sense of humor, a real man inside the freakish body.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 5 July 2017
• Leave it to the erudite Pau Gasol to place an exclamation point between the ellipses.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• There’s probably a much more erudite version of this on the EFF website.
  — Roger Huang, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• The grand finale of the week was a tour of the home of Gunsite’s late founder, an imperious and erudite racist named Jeff Cooper.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
• Among the habitués who befriended the erudite young server was the writer Henry Miller.
  — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
• His role as Brainy Smurf, the glasses wearing, erudite blue creature, earned him new fans.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
• Buttigieg, one of the top fundraisers in the field, impressed many Democrats early on as a young, erudite, gay war veteran.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• Now an erudite 33-year-old, he’s more often known as Eddy.
  — James Reginato, Town & Country, 23 June 2022
• In the telling of a life lived through books, and in her own sometimes floridly erudite sentences, the deep magic of writing is revealed.
  — Nina Renata Aron, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
• And Tate was there to put it all in the most erudite intellectual context.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
• Nur’s erudite Persian father, Ghiyas Beg, was among the latter.
  — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• Spencer Klavan, one of the two grooms, has an inspiring, erudite podcast, Young Heretics.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Aug. 2022
• There is little doubt that, of these two first-time readers, the erudite and the uninformed, Eliot would lean toward the second.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• There was the erudite-but-humble professor next door and upstairs.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• This list of books would probably take me a year to read, so kudos to Eduardo who clearly doesn’t mind the dense and erudite.
  — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
• Munger comes on more arrogant and erudite, while Buffett comes on modest and folksy.
  — Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Such insights give a glimpse into the lively, open-minded and erudite story that Lawrence tells.
  — Patrick T. Reardon, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• In a congenial end-of-year piece, Knight takes us down the rabbit hole of Baldessari’s erudite yet humorous thinking.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• Vogue’s ploy to draw the erudite designer out of his bustling East London studio for a breath of fresh air during the final sprint to his spring 2022 show has paid off.
  — Julia Hobbs, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2021
• The reviews on the site became as erudite as those of the music magazines that Pitchfork had all but eclipsed in influence.
  — Devin Leonard, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
• Earnestly coined terms, by contrast can be too staid, too erudite, too intent on making the coiner look smart.
  — Ralph Keyes, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
• Leader of the formidable crew is Chaka (Yann Gael), a handsome, smart and erudite type.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
• Angela Lorenz, for instance, makes the most inventive artist’s books, and these objects are precious and erudite.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Oct. 2020
• There's no doubt that the Swiss brand—like the Swiss itself—are passionate about all things beautiful and erudite, hence their commitment to preserving the works of the past and the future.
  — Taylore Glynn, Marie Claire, 22 Oct. 2021
• Quite the opposite—though he is admired by many for his erudite cultural criticism, and by many of the authors who wrote for him at TNR.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2017
• No doubt, their brand of humor is different from that of longtime friends Giedroyc and Perkins, who took a more erudite approach to being the comic relief.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Apr 2024