LEARN in a Sentence

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For LEARN, below is one of 420 sentences:
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEARN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
learn
 v.  get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
 v.  find out or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I want to learn some new songs, and my children need fitting up for the summer.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
2  Suppose you learn plain cooking.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
3  I advise you to learn, for German is a valuable accomplishment to teachers.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
4  It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
5  John is a good man, but he has his faults, and you must learn to see and bear with them, remembering your own.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
6  The sweeping style suits you best, and you must learn to trail your skirts gracefully.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
7  Well, it does look pleasant, but I can't learn how it's done.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
8  I am too stupid to learn, I blundered out, as red as a peony.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
9  First, therefore, give me a list of the suitors, with their number, that I may learn who, and how many, they are.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
10  There are not ten suitors only, nor twice ten, but ten many times over; you shall learn their number at once.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
11  Since he was not in the grave, I could bear, I thought, to learn that he was at the Antipodes.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  Compared with some families, I believe we were; but such of us as wished to learn never wanted the means.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
13  You must learn some of my philosophy.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 58
14  She remembered that he had yet to learn to be laughed at, and it was rather too early to begin.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 58
15  The author studies to learn the language.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time.
17  Students from countries as diverse as Colombia and Lithuania use Cambridge textbooks when they learn English.
18  The course aims to help children learn through video.
19  What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
20  By falling we learn to go safely.
21  He who will not learn when he is young will regret it when he is old.
22  And gladly would learn, and gladly teach.
23  Children must learn to write neatly.
24  Parents should learn how to praise the children's good behavior.
25  Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
26  The living man who does not learn is dark, dark like one walking in the night.
27  Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.
28  The astronauts are conducting a series of experiments to learn more about how the body adapts to weightlessness.
29  Students on the course learn about all aspects of business.
30  Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.