How to Use illiteracy in a Sentence

illiteracy

noun

• His letters contain many misspellings and illiteracies.
• Her illiteracy was a source of shame for my father, who kept the secret from me for four decades.
  — Héctor Tobar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• The system was introduced in the 1960s to avoid spoiled ballots in a nation with a high illiteracy rate.
  — Reuters, CNN, 4 Dec. 2021
• Nine of the 10 states with the highest illiteracy rates had websites written above a 10th-grade level.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2020
• But many struggle with illiteracy, how to use a smartphone or how to get online.
  — Simone Weichselbaum, NBC News, 18 July 2023
• Over the same period rates of illiteracy fell from one in five young women aged 15-24 to one in ten, bringing them roughly on a par with young men.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• And, to tackle the illiteracy divide, Jio has been expanding the A.I.-powered voice-to-text and speech-recognition functions on the phones.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 21 June 2022
• The bizarre Lea Michele illiteracy rumor is one for the history books.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2023
• Want to tell us what your school is doing to tackle reading and illiteracy?
  — Ruth Serven Smith | [e-mail], al, 10 Nov. 2021
• Also slowing down business growth is the high rate of illiteracy among women involved in the project, Ms. Abikar said.
  — Zoe Tabary, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2018
• In a speech-processing world, illiteracy no longer has to be a barrier to a decent life.
  — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2017
• Some see emoji as little more than an adolescent grunt, taking us back to the dark ages of illiteracy.
  — Vyvyan Evans, CNN, 29 May 2017
• There are no paved roads, no clinics, no milling machines, and illiteracy is near total.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• The Ngabé Buglé are Panama's largest indigenous group and suffer from high rates of poverty and illiteracy.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2020
• This is a shocking swerve by Michele, who recently said the rumors of her illiteracy were sexist.
  — Vulture, 18 Sep. 2022
• There are those who are grappling with overpowering problems of illiteracy and ill health and who are ill-equipped to hold free elections.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 4 July 2018
• The 59-year-old adored everything about Barbara Bush - the first lady’s mission to fight illiteracy.
  — Robert Downen, Houston Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2018
• Just a guess here, but maybe your granny would rather expose herself to a deadly virus than admit to her Internet illiteracy.
  — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2020
• According to the Department of Justice, there is a link between high crime rates and illiteracy.
  — Kalyn Dunkins | [e-mail], al, 10 Oct. 2022
• After he was freed and moved to America, Kalinski, dubbed Tim, took steps to hide his illiteracy.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• Libraries are on the frontlines of so many wars—the war against censorship, the war against the erosion of personal privacy, the war against illiteracy, the war against fascism and the crumbling of democracy.
  — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024
• India's mica belt is among the poorest regions in the country and has high rates of illiteracy and unemployment.
  — Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Marie Claire, 16 Oct. 2018
• Because of illiteracy, being from a foreign country or some other reason, many of the names of the deceased are not spelled correctly.
  — Bob Dohr, Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022
• Due to high illiteracy rates, the white racists of Lowndes were able to go to court to get a symbol of a rooster put on the ballot so illiterate whites would know how to vote for without even being able to read or write.
  — Essence, 11 Aug. 2022
• Articles like this from the CBC are a symptom of the greater problem with science illiteracy in the general public - along with the laziness of writers and editors in terms of getting the facts right.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
• Was this a case of economic illiteracy on the part of Warren and her fellow quasi-socialists who seem to be driving the Democratic debate?
  — David Winston, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2019
• Much of Trump’s war on the truth appears to be based in exploiting widespread media illiteracy among the citizenry.
  — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 1 June 2018
• As a result, the libraries of Timbuktu are erased by slavery’s forced illiteracy.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 4 July 2017
• It was sketched by Mr. Trump as part of a charity event benefiting the fight against illiteracy in September 2005.
  — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 28 July 2017
• Joe Biden’s latest argument for why the crisis at the southern border isn’t his fault is predicated on the assumption of widespread civic illiteracy.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024