LITERARY in a Sentence

Learn LITERARY 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.

For LITERARY, below is one of 41 sentences:
They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-coffee lap suppers, and they regarded Carol as their literary and artistic representative.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of LITERARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
literary
 a.  knowledgeable about literature; of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-coffee lap suppers, and they regarded Carol as their literary and artistic representative.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  The others tried to look literary.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  She felt triumphant and rather literary.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  The rest of the association dropped into the theater every evening, and were literary and superior.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  All members of the social, financial, scientific, literary, and sporting sets were at No.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  The Commercial Club issued a booklet prepared by a great and expensive literary person from a Minneapolis advertising agency, a red-headed young man who smoked cigarettes in a long amber holder.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  She was talking "books" with Mr. Gouvernail and trying to draw from him his opinion upon current literary topics.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
8  The suave priest, her uncle, seated in his arm-chair, would hold the page at arm's length, read it smiling and approve of the literary form.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  By hell, I think that's a good literary expression.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  Though there was nothing wrong in these stories and though their intention was sometimes literary they were circulated secretly at school.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
11  It was true that he wrote a literary column every Wednesday in The Daily Express, for which he was paid fifteen shillings.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
12  But there is no literary public in England for anything except newspapers, primers, and encyclopaedias.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
13  I myself used to have literary ambitions, but I gave them up long ago.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
14  She ran after painters and novelists; but she did not charm them; and her bold attempts to pick up and practise artistic and literary talk irritated them.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
15  You have moral and literary tastes in common.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence:
1  Science fiction in media is exponentially bigger as a market than science fiction in literary form.
2  While Gaiman does not possess much of a sophisticated literary skill, he nevertheless is an author to read for the interesting and amazing stories.
3  After his book had been published, he was invited to join the literary coterie that lunched daily at the hotel.
4  She preferred discussions about sports and politics to the literary conversations of the intelligentsia.
5  His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide.
6  All the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties.
7  He used to attend to his literary salons.
8  The Journals contain accounts of literary composition.
9  Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusions.
10  In a sense, the very institution of literary criticism is concrete testimony of this assumption.
11  Latin was the literary language of.
12  Joyce's style of writing was a striking departure from the literary norm.