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
• 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
• Many of the erudite friends of the U.S. diplomats disappeared.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 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
• And Tate was there to put it all in the most erudite intellectual context.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
• There was the erudite-but-humble professor next door and upstairs.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Leave it to the erudite Pau Gasol to place an exclamation point between the ellipses.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• Among the habitués who befriended the erudite young server was the writer Henry Miller.
  — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Munger comes on more arrogant and erudite, while Buffett comes on modest and folksy.
  — Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• This is both a page-turner and a raw but erudite expression of a totally unique consciousness.
  — Molly Young, Vulture, 4 June 2021
• His speaking style can veer from lyrical to profane to deeply erudite to entirely streetwise.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Such insights give a glimpse into the lively, open-minded and erudite story that Lawrence tells.
  — Patrick T. Reardon, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• There’s probably a much more erudite version of this on the EFF website.
  — Roger Huang, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• In the hands of a less erudite and playful designer, such attentiveness to history might produce a rigid monotony of style.
  — Victoria Johnson, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2022
• 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
• This is a wonderfully clever and erudite puzzle mystery that bibliophiles and mystery lovers will adore.
  — Alex Pavesi, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• On the surface, this is almost interesting—the kind of reference that makes its wielder seem erudite.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
• Take away those erudite writing-program authors in their tasteful cardigans.
  — Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
• 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
• But what elegant gossip, dressed up in Brown's stylish sentences and erudite insights.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
• In the book’s best bits, his broad thesis provides fertile ground for expansive and erudite associative thought.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• My music education, like that of so many others, began as a kid by reading liner notes, many of which could be quite erudite.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2023
• But the series is clear about how much of a problem the eccentric, bisexual, erudite Peterson is for the jurors.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 June 2018
• And so is an erudite, closely reasoned defense of those ideas: An apostle can help explain a messiah.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 July 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024