How to Use autodidact in a Sentence

autodidact

noun

• But Greenwood has made up for it with an autodidact's zeal.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2022
• Mering is a movie lover, a big reader, and something of an autodidact.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• An autodidact like so many of the men who built the British Empire, Cautley arrived in India in 1819 as a humble artilleryman.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
• Like Hutchinson, Kempton rises to the rhetorical occasion, flush with the pride of the autodidact.
  — The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022
• Clark had always fashioned himself an autodidact and proceeded to scour the murky corners of the web looking for answers.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
• Friends and colleagues describe Williams as an autodidact.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 May 2022
• Hoffer was a longshoreman and an autodidact who wrote slender books hefty with wisdom.
  — George Will, National Review, 20 Dec. 2017
• The second is Grace Hopper, an autodidact, teacher, and Navy rear admiral, among many other things.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Republic, 1 May 2018
• My mother was an incredible autodidact, sharp and creative in her own right.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• But laws are slow to leave the books, and the Music & Amusement Association needed someone like Sharpe — an autodidact with no financial ties to the industry — to hasten the process.
  — Adam Ruben, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023
• His friends and siblings describe Mr. Seivwright as a passionate autodidact.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• Friends and colleagues described Dr. Tanton as a Renaissance man and a voracious autodidact.
  — Nicholas Kulish, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2019
• But Korelitz has made her young autodidact far more conflicted.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• He is driven, inexhaustible, and an honest-to-goodness autodidact.
  — Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2019
• Coe, an autodidact and the son of the outlaw-country musician David Allan Coe, relishes his role as scholar-enthusiast-gadfly, and his zeal is the show’s animating force.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
• In 1825, British autodidact Benjamin Gompertz found the risk of death increases exponentially with age.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2018
• The challenge for such an autodidact, then, is how to transcend the limits of personal experience when personal experience is the most reliable source of insight.
  — Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2023
• These are the citizen journalists, forum posters with statistics degrees, bloggers who work on Wall Street, and autodidact podcasters.
  — James McElroy, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
• Today the Norwegian autodidact who reconfigured Western theater in the mid- and late 19th century appears at once larger than life and blurredly remote.
  — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 17 May 2019
• Upon being elected mayor in 2006, Bogdán, who completed only three years of formal schooling but is a restless autodidact, set about helping villagers understand the power of that dictum.
  — Tibor Krausz, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2017
• Eric Thompson, who began working as a butcher’s apprentice at thirteen before finding his calling as an actor and a director, was an autodidact.
  — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally at home in our self-branding society.
  — Nancy Kline, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2017
• Unfortunately, d’Hérelle was an autodidact working as a volunteer at the Institut Pasteur, in Paris.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• Brand is a British actor, comedian, podcaster, autodidact, and all-around wonderful weirdo who is in recovery for his own multiple addictions.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2020
• For all his life Mr. Cohran was a ravenous autodidact, studying world history, astrology, health science and musicology and passing that knowledge on to students.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 4 July 2017
• Her father was an autodidact who invented a ribbon-tying device and invested in commercial real estate.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• Graham Hancock is an audacious autodidact who believes that long before ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Egypt there existed an even more glorious civilization.
  — Michael Shermer, Scientific American, 22 May 2017
• Graham Hancock is an audacious autodidact who believes that long before ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Egypt there existed an even more glorious civilization.
  — Michael Shermer, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
• We custodians of old books are supposed (at least) to be peddling one commodity that journalists and autodidacts sometimes run short on: intellectual humility.
  — Daniel E. Burns, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
• Caldas, an autodidact, who early in his career built architectural models for Oscar Niemeyer, found success designing affordable furniture for the emerging Brazilian middle class.
  — Max Maeckler, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024