How to Use literature in a Sentence
literature
noun- Can you send me some literature about your product?
- She took courses in history and literature.
- Her education gave her an appreciation for great literature.
- He's an expert in American literature.
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This one is, once again, dragged from the pages of literature.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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One of the best ways to learn about a locale is through its literature.
—Katherine J. Igoe, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
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Art and literature love a nice girl—and then proceed to give her a rough time.
—Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 29 May 2024
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These are the questions at the heart of noir, of every literature of alienation.
—David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
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The Color Purple is one of the most important books in the canon of world literature.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
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Academia had slowly killed the literature in her, Ypi told me.
—Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2023
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In this novel, fame is a threat: The writer who seeks it may forfeit the silence at the heart of literature.
—Sofia Samatar, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
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The other rule is the best pieces that haven’t been collected on film, literature, and jazz.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
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In recent years, the pair that was once confined to the world of children’s literature crossed into the realm of pop culture.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
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But, if used correctly over the course of three or four months, Rhee says, the alarms can have a high success rate—the literature puts it at around 75%.
—Haley Weiss, Time, 24 July 2023
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The kingdom of Borno where [Nicholas Said] was from, had its own literature, had its own art, had its own sciences.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
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The film follows the story of Gabriel (Caio Macedo), a young literature teacher, who has just moved to Rio.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
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The others are prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine and literature.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2023
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The literature of work begins in childhood but doesn’t end there.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Each one cost a penny, and the serial literature was aimed at the working class.
—Laura Zornosa, Time, 7 July 2023
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Han Kang is the first South Korean to win the literature Nobel.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
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It’s considered to be one of the most important books in English literature, next to the King James Bible.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2023
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Those efforts were good and showed classic literature has more ideas to mine.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024
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What the writer of the show’s literature was respecting was not the subject’s husband, but a woman’s choice of her own name.
—Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
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At the second stop, those turning in guns received their gift cards, a free gun lock and literature on gun safety.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 5 June 2023
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The forest is dark and deep and menacing, and that menace lies at the heart of the whole corpus of the fairy tales and folktales that form the foundation of our literature.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
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Ernst Jünger is the intractable land mine of German literature.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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And your first reading of literature started more or less when?
—Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
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In 2019 a group of international researchers looked through the literature and again found the link to be lacking.
—WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
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Unlike the gruesome, bloodthirsty creatures of classic films and literature, Cullen and his family abstain from drinking the blood of humans.
—Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
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For instance, a common use of legal AI is to analyze literature quickly and draft a summary document.
—Mark Doble, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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