How to Use literature in a Sentence

literature

noun
Definition of literaturenext
  • Can you send me some literature about your product?
  • She took courses in history and literature.
  • Her education gave her an appreciation for great literature.
  • He's an expert in American literature.
  • Art and literature love a nice girl—and then proceed to give her a rough time.
    — Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 29 May 2024
  • These are the questions at the heart of noir, of every literature of alienation.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Color Purple is one of the most important books in the canon of world literature.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Academia had slowly killed the literature in her, Ypi told me.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2023
  • In this novel, fame is a threat: The writer who seeks it may forfeit the silence at the heart of literature.
    — Sofia Samatar, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • In recent years, the pair that was once confined to the world of children’s literature crossed into the realm of pop culture.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But, if used correctly over the course of three or four months, Rhee says, the alarms can have a high success rate—the literature puts it at around 75%.
    — Haley Weiss, Time, 24 July 2023
  • The kingdom of Borno where [Nicholas Said] was from, had its own literature, had its own art, had its own sciences.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The film follows the story of Gabriel (Caio Macedo), a young literature teacher, who has just moved to Rio.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The others are prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine and literature.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Each one cost a penny, and the serial literature was aimed at the working class.
    — Laura Zornosa, Time, 7 July 2023
  • Han Kang is the first South Korean to win the literature Nobel.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
  • It’s considered to be one of the most important books in English literature, next to the King James Bible.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Those efforts were good and showed classic literature has more ideas to mine.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024
  • What the writer of the show’s literature was respecting was not the subject’s husband, but a woman’s choice of her own name.
    — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
  • At the second stop, those turning in guns received their gift cards, a free gun lock and literature on gun safety.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 5 June 2023
  • Ernst Jünger is the intractable land mine of German literature.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
  • And your first reading of literature started more or less when?
    — Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In 2019 a group of international researchers looked through the literature and again found the link to be lacking.
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • There's also a fitness room, a sauna, an on-deck hot tub, and a library filled with maritime and polar literature.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The 60-minute performances showcase six major works of Ancient Greek literature so guests can get a little taste of the best.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2023
  • The original novel by Brontë is considered by many to be one of the great pieces of literature.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Many Black artists of the ‘60s wrote her off as imitating white literature.
    — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • But to be told that certain works of literature defined your home, and not recognize the home in those works, was the best kind of motivation, too.
    — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Across a modest 800 square feet, there’s no shortage of literature to discuss.
    — Max Bell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The programming will also include discussions on literature and foodways, as well as a celebrity chef bake-off, Giddens said in a video release.
    — Zachery Eanes, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024

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