LITERATE in a Sentence

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For LITERATE, below is one of 56 sentences:
I know for a fact, that his race horses literally ran away with the prettiest bit of Kentucky farming land I ever laid eyes upon.

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 Meanings and Examples of LITERATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
literate
 a.  educated; schooled; one who can read and write
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  If Will were as literate as Guy, or Guy were as executive as Will, I think I could endure even Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
3  I had forgotten you were so literal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  It was not, indeed, anything specific that he feared: there had been a literal truth in his declaration that he did not think anything would happen.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
5  He was a serious and literal person, and rather humorless.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  Thus a literal translation of the.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
7  Tell him that we yield to his rapacity, as in similar circumstances we should do to that of a literal robber.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  When I say, therefore, that Mycroft has better powers of observation than I, you may take it that I am speaking the exact and literal truth.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
9  "'Tisn't in mine head, it's in mine mouf," answered literal Demi, putting out his tongue, with a chocolate drop on it, thinking she alluded to confectionery, not ideas.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
10  Thus, when Emancipation finally came, it seemed to the freedman a literal Coming of the Lord.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
11  Gray wool for uniforms was now almost literally more priceless than rubies, and Ashley was wearing the familiar homespun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  I don't mean, literally, to take the next train.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
13  It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable of the word literally expresses.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
14  I couldn't help thinking that the years when Lena literally hadn't enough clothes to cover herself might have something to do with her untiring interest in dressing the human figure.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
15  I know for a fact, that his race horses literally ran away with the prettiest bit of Kentucky farming land I ever laid eyes upon.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXII
Example Sentence:
1  Over one-quarter of the adult population are not fully literate.
2  They are the first fully literate generation in the country.
3  Though nearly twenty he was barely literate.
4  This claim is made on the grounds that literate people can be trained less expensively.
5  The literal meaning of the word " cat " is an animal.
6  His story is incredible in the literal sense of the word.
7  I beg your pardon, it is the literal truth: he asked me more than once, and was as stiff about urging his point as ever you could be.
8  It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
9  The event literally stopped the traffic.
10  She refused food and literally starved herself to death.
11  Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
12  If you tell a person to "step on it" or "throw on your coat," they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.
13  The word literally translates to 'dispeller of darkness,' or 'one who brings light.'
14  The colonel in charge of the rubbish clearing operation, Keith Schollom, told me this was literally a mountain of a problem to be dealing with.
15  There are literally hundreds of varieties of these two species of legume, including beans and peas with many different sizes, colors, shapes.