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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Munger comes on more arrogant and erudite, while Buffett comes on modest and folksy.
    Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Such insights give a glimpse into the lively, open-minded and erudite story that Lawrence tells.
    Patrick T. Reardon, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • There’s probably a much more erudite version of this on the EFF website.
    Roger Huang, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
  • His role as Brainy Smurf, the glasses wearing, erudite blue creature, earned him new fans.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • On the surface, this is almost interesting—the kind of reference that makes its wielder seem erudite.
    Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
  • This is a wonderfully clever and erudite puzzle mystery that bibliophiles and mystery lovers will adore.
    Alex Pavesi, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Take away those erudite writing-program authors in their tasteful cardigans.
    Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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