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
• The scholarly work that D'Souza (and Woodward) pilloried in the early 90's has stood the test of time.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 13 Aug. 2018
• 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
• Is this the most scholarly way to pass along your displeasure?
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 2 July 2019
• 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
• Weymar, who is petite and scholarly, with blond hair and large brown eyes, founded the Tiny Pricks Project last year.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• 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
• The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment has been an age-old source of scholarly debate and contentious dispute.
  — New York Times, 16 July 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
• The youngsters couldn’t have looked more ready for a new academic year on Monday, dressed in their scholarly best.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• 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 department is small and its work is mostly scholarly.
  — Caitlin Hu, Quartz, 2 June 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
• Colvin, a sinewy former high-school wrestler whose rounded silver eyeglasses give him a scholarly mien, was plenty intrigued.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
• One 2019 scholarly paper found that more than half of bankruptcy filers cited medical expenses as a contributing cause.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 24 Feb 2025