LEARNED in a Sentence

Learn LEARNED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

350 example sentences for LEARNED, such as:

1. He is learned in the law.
2. No man is born wise or learned.
3. He even learned to chew tobacco.
4. She learned to ride when she was seven.
5. He has learned that dishonesty does not pay.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEARNED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
learned
 a.  having or showing profound knowledge
 a.  established by conditioning or learning
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But purchasers were slow in coming, and while he waited for them Ethan learned the impossibility of transplanting her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardy to survive among large ones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  He even learned to chew tobacco.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  From them he learned what he found useful, and the rest he dismissed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  To this end, Ellen and Mammy bent their efforts, and as Scarlett grew older she became an apt pupil in this subject, even though she learned little else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Most of all she learned how to conceal from men a sharp intelligence beneath a face as sweet and bland as a baby's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  Between them, they taught her all that a gentlewoman should know, but she learned only the outward signs of gentility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  The inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason for learning it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  From the two he loved best, Charles had received no toughening influences, learned nothing of harshness or reality, and the home in which he grew to manhood was as soft as a bird's nest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  She had learned to say, "I won't think of this or that bothersome thought now."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  They had learned retreating under Old Joe, who had made it as great a feat of strategy as advancing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  And no man ever learned such things from good women either.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  Mother never knew, never heard the enemy in the rooms below, never heard the guns at Jonesboro, never learned that the land which was part of her heart was under Yankee feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Life treated women well when they had learned those lessons, said Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
16  No man is born wise or learned.
17  He learned how to draw the unclothed human frame.
18  A timid child, Isabella had learned obedience at an early age.
19  Can't help sadness, then slowly learned to hide.
20  She learned how to identify medicinal herbs from a traditional Chinese doctor.
21  He is learned in the law.
22  I didn't cry because it is over,but suddenly learned to miss it.
23  He has learned that dishonesty does not pay.
24  We learned by actual experience that practice makes perfect.
25  James was keen to put some of the things he had learned into practice.
26  Primitive man quickly learned how to manipulate tools.
27  He is a serious scholar, a genuinely learned man.
28  She learned to ride when she was seven.
29  Businessmen are trying to shake off habits learned under six decades of a protected economy.
30  He learned this song as an inmate at a Texas prison.