How to Use scholarly in a Sentence

scholarly

adjective

• She has a scholarly interest in music.
• His writings have been recently given scholarly attention.
• The Three Bibles wasn’t the place to purchase pricey scholarly tomes.
  — James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
• But that wasn’t the end of her scholarly journey by a long shot.
  — Tao Leigh Goffe, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2021
• This doesn’t seem to be the year for advice books, scholarly tomes or rigor of any sort.
  — Judy Knotts, Austin American-Statesman, 27 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Caras took a painstaking, scholarly look at all the critters that can kill us, and his is a book without bullsh*t.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 June 2020
• 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
• Six of the eight have no scholarly publications on them at all.
  — Gerard De Kamper, Quartz Africa, 23 Oct. 2019
• 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
• There is a lot of scholarly research regarding the ins and outs of wintertime blues.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
• Getting dressed for that kind of on-the-job action was a tricky business that began with scholarly research.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• The Author Clock features a scholarly design with a solid white oak frame and a polished brass base.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The 1619 Project has emerged as a watchword for our era — a hashtag, a talking point, a journalism case study, a scholarly mission.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
• Susan drives me mad with her long scholarly explanations of things one only needs the eyes and ears of someone like Irene to see.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Researchers often comb through reams of scholarly works.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Jan 2025