How to Use scholarly in a Sentence

scholarly

adjective

• She has a scholarly interest in music.
• His writings have been recently given scholarly attention.
• But that wasn’t the end of her scholarly journey by a long shot.
  — Tao Leigh Goffe, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2021
• Like many cities with a long and scholarly past, Hanoi is a café culture, and the streets are clogged with coffee stalls.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
• To own a scholarly or first edition of a favorite book is a way to honor its place in your life.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• Young Ratzinger was apparently a shy and scholarly boy who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  — Jay Parini, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
• But amid today’s fierce polemics, even scholarly discussion of the term is fraught.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• The premise of the film has to do with a scholarly project to write biographies of the nine thousand French people who’d been deported to this camp.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2021
• In a big-idea book, which this aims to be, those scholarly and stylistic virtues need to serve a striking argument.
  — The Economist, 8 May 2021
• Studies published in scholarly journals showed the foam broke apart in heat and moisture.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
• Much scholarly work has been conducted on the workplace and its impact on the workforce.
  — Bill Adams, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• If nothing else, such scholarly debates should help ensure a steady stream of Lincoln books for years to come.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
• Libraries have been filled with scholarly works about Fitzgerald and his most famous work.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• According to Yale, the team plans to put their work and findings in scholarly articles.
  — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2021
• Hoover denies that the burns are part of her scholarly work and says that she had been invited by the tribal chairperson who hosted the burns.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• It’s one of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable.
  — The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2020
• This is why the Fashion and Race Database’s newsletter reads nothing like a scholarly text.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• There was a scholarly work on Pierrot, the sad clown of the commedia dell’arte, and two books of literary interviews.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2022
• There has been an off-and-on spate of scholarly research about highway hypnosis.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
• Toward that end, Stewart’s work has been scholarly and aimed at a broad audience.
  — Deborah Vankin Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• Their rabbi, Samuel Rosenblatt, had a scholarly mien and a formal manner.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• His scholarly mind is chock-full of quotes, anecdotes, history, even facts.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
• There’s a scholarly intellect, academia, behind it, and there’s so much felt emotion.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2024
• The Ivy League school, which for years has been delving into its ties to slavery, pledged to widely distribute free copies of a scholarly book of its findings.
  — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• Sebastián Yatra will be helping a student at Berklee make their scholarly dreams come true.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
• Their love of the music of all genres is evident in the group’s chameleonic efforts but truly gleams in this scholarly discourse about the meaning of hip-hop.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• Here, every scholarly tool is wielded to tell this story that a woman wrote herself and still could not see coming.
  — Hannah Gold, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• Academic and scholarly books are rehashings of primary sources, which is why all of those books have 500 footnotes at the end.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
• Chiang is a writer of fiction, but the logic applies equally to scholarly writing.
  — Victoria Livingstone, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• Advertisement The disturbing new after-school special that parents of teenagers need to see: For years, anecdotal evidence and scholarly research have shown the dangers social media can hold for kids and teens.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024