EDUCATED in a Sentence

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Probably you are an educated man, good Popov, and go in for polite thieving, as distinguished from the more vulgar cut-throat sort.

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 Meanings and Examples of EDUCATED
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educated
 a.  informed; learned; having an education, especially one above the average
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Probably you are an educated man, good Popov, and go in for polite thieving, as distinguished from the more vulgar cut-throat sort.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
2  Yes, whether or not we be educated, there is something we lack.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
3  He was educated at home till he was fourteen, surrounded by cheap tutors, free-and-easy but toadying adjutants, and all the usual regimental and staff set.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Pavel Petrovitch Kirsanov was educated first at home, like his younger brother, and afterwards in the Corps of Pages.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  She was not exactly shy, but diffident, and rather overawed by her sister, who had educated her, and who had no suspicion of the fact.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  As for your assessor, he's an educated man, to be sure, but he reeks of spirits, as if he had just emerged from a distillery.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
7  It's evident that he is an educated man.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
8  The young man had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his first appearance in society.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
9  Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna Pavlovna's was the first he had attended in Russia.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
10  One day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he's a wild beast.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
11  Well, my dear boy, I hear you've been educated abroad, not taught to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
12  on till he reached Vereshchagin, a half educated tradesman, you know, 'a.'
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
13  'No; but I was educated by a French family and understand that language only.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
14  I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  He hurried the phrase "educated at Oxford," or swallowed it or choked on it as though it had bothered him before.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (197 in 14 pages)
16  Let early education be a sort of a musement; you will then be bette able to find out the natural bent.
17  The government has announced plans to open up access to higher education.
18  All students must have access to quality education without regard to wealth or class.
19  Adult education helps people achieve more fulfilled lives.
20  This boom in adult education, in turn, helps to raise the intellectual standard of the whole country.
21  Most adult education centres offer computing courses.
22  We should do our best to develop the adult education.
23  She says the French education system is light years ahead of the English one.
24  The latest education reforms have put extra pressure on teachers who are already hard-pressed.
25  Although he had had little formal education, he could read and write well.
26  I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness.
27  The President called on educators and politicians to help him restructure American education.
28  We need to take a pluralistic approach to education.
29  The essence of his argument was that education should continue throughout life.
30  He called for much higher spending on education and training.