How to Use literate in a Sentence

literate

1 of 2 adjective

• The job requires you to be computer literate.
• What percentage of the population is literate?
• She is literate in both English and Spanish.
• In 1860, when The Clotilda came over, who was literate?
  — Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• Almost half of very low-literate adults in the U.S. live in poverty.
  — Jordan Wilkerson, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2019
• What will be next, some semi-literate game show host in the Oval Office?
  — The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2022
• His mother was very literate and a very good book reader.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
• Before the rise of radio and television, the poster offered a way to reach a range of people, literate or not, all at once.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• To be literate in the language, a person must be able to read and write at least three thousand characters.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• All of which seems to suggest that all the classy, literate, upmarket crooks have thrown in the towel and moved on to other pursuits.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• His daughter, now 33, is literate with a high-school diploma.
  — John D. Harden, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
• By the 1670′s Moore became a free, literate Christian man and landowner in Hartford.
  — Amanda Blanco, courant.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Most Maya were not literate, meaning this would have been a special tribute.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2022
• The fact that 99% of Americans are now literate would have shocked Americans a hundred years ago.
  — Jennifer Wright, refinery29.com, 29 June 2020
• Near the end, the always literate Emma switches from quoting Dickens to Thomas Hardy.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
• Less than a third of the population is literate, and even fewer have access to clean water.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 17 June 2019
• Americans tend to be pretty literate about race and class.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• Cave and his band, known for dark, unusually literate songs, will play in the arena’s intimate Theater of the Clouds set-up.
  — oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2020
• The 17th-century Wampanoag were themselves highly literate, and wrote many deeds, letters, and wills.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2020
• MacPhee’s reading of images and their uses is literate and astute.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 2 June 2022
• This is a smart, literate, intellectual city that has an ethos of wanting to care for your neighbors.
  — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2019
• Outside those walls sits one of the poorest, least literate communities in the nation.
  — chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• Or that my grandma would become computer-literate enough to Zoom with me every few weeks.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2022
• It’s just been an extremely huge plus to be able to make some money and save it and invest it and learn how to become financially literate.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2023
• For once Sandler wasn't a screaming football savant or the semi-literate son of a hotel millionaire; he wasn't touched by God with a golf swing.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 June 2022
• The people most likely to start their own businesses are those who have the resources to work online, are digitally literate – and techy.
  — Bryan Pearson, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• There are many reasons this literate and insightful comedy works, not the least of which is that it’s based on Tom Perrotta’s 2017 novel.
  — Mark Dawidziak, cleveland, 26 Oct. 2019
• In literate societies, writing has long been recognized as a way to help people think.
  — Fortune, 19 Jan. 2023
• Throughout the Dark Ages, the few literate Europeans continued to write in classical Latin.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• Only 33% of Malians are literate, according to the United Nations.
  — Anna Pujol-Mazzini, latimes.com, 17 June 2019

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literate

2 of 2 noun

• There weren’t nearly enough tech-literate agents to fill the scores of new job openings in the NIPC.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
• The comics-literate will tell you that there is a good reason for all of the mannered strangeness.
  — Joshua Rivera, The Verge, 15 Jan. 2021
• And adapt it for younger kids, perhaps adding emoji-like icons for the pre-literate.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 19 Mar. 2020
• Your workforce now, and in the future, wants better health and to be more health literate.
  — Sean Slovenski, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• The easiest way to do this will be to become low-code, no-code literate.
  — Iain Scholnick, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• The growth of the single malt market and the interest in rarity and uniqueness grew out of a wine-literate consumer base.
  — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Still, Lorenzen, the mental health counselor, urged people of all ages to be social-media literate.
  — Alexie Zollinger, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2021
• There is no end to its willingness to pander to those literate in Golden Age musicals.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 16 July 2021
• Kalder’s point is the disquieting one that the worst tyrants of the past century were hardly the brutal less-than-literates of our imagination.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• Data literate staff are better equipped with the knowledge to find and access data to make more informed business decisions.
  — Sharad Varshney, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• And don’t be afraid to seek help from a professional, like a grief-literate therapist, if your usual support system leaves something to be desired.
  — Tayla Blaire, Glamour, 11 Jan. 2022
• Now, North Korea’s computer literate are allegedly masterminding attacks around the globe, such as the hack on Sony Pictures in 2014 that crashed the bulk of the company’s servers and cost it tens of millions of dollars.
  — Bruce Harrison, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2017
• Both of my parents were able to get vaccinated in Texas only because my tech-literate siblings ensured that our folks had appointments.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• Last year, Indian banks launched a mobile payment system that after a simple sign-up process allows the less-tech-literate to make payments and transfer money from their accounts with their phones.
  — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2017
• But today, even the mainstream is porn-literate, porn-saturated, and porn-conversant.
  — Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 11 June 2017
• The program makes sure to emphasize that students leave the program bilingual, bi-literate, and with a strong sense of biculturalism, which Herod believes is key to a student’s total immersion in the program.
  — Ryan Nickerson, Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2020
• The only way to do this effectively is to hire the correct data-literate individuals.
  — Mike Bugembe, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The letters on hand may reflect the gulf between the educated and non-literate, Heidelbaugh adds, but there are some examples that suggest letters had been dictated to others.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2017
• New York's Dave Gettleman, who famously is not very computer-literate, appears to be planning to operate with just a single small laptop and a massive binder.
  — Nick Schwartz, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2020
• For anyone bewildered by the transformation of the book world, Mr. Thompson offers a pointed, thorough and business-literate survey.
  — Jonathan Rose, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2021
• While not sequential, each maturity level must be addressed as a business follows its unique path, at its own pace, to develop a data-literate workforce.
  — Sarah Nell-Rodriquez, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• Every student, regardless of their occupation, will need to be data-literate in order to succeed in a world where data will increasingly be king.
  — Carlos Melendez, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• What comes next is what some in the industry are calling ‘data storytelling’ i.e. the action to put data analytics in the hands of less data-literate employees through narrative techniques.
  — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• Lin said this is a good thing because not everyone with pending immigration cases is computer literate.
  — Kate Morrissey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 July 2018
• Hart-Wells entered the race to ensure students are scientifically and data literate.
  — Lorraine Longhi, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2020
• Such a cinema-literate approach added meta-textual wrinkles to Dear White People’s racial commentary.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2020
• Local and state sign-up portals are impossible to navigate, even for tech-literate adult children trying to enroll their elderly parents.
  — John Knefel, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2021
• In today’s hyper pop-culture literate landscape, any show that draws from a wealth of source material like this one risks its fans using their knowledge of that material to get precariously far ahead of the story that’s being told.
  — Adam B. Vary, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• Western Europe’s literate elite, the clerics, by definition, did not have legitimate heirs, and so modeled a life outside of family networks.
  — Razib Khan, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
• As with the internet itself, bitcoin’s first adopters were mostly the highly computer-literate and the highly criminal, followed by speculators.
  — Rob Curran, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024