How to Use literati in a Sentence

literati

plural noun

• One of those lunches was with me, at Michael’s restaurant, a fishbowl in those days for the literati.
  — Amy Fine Collins, Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2022
• For some members of Hong Kong’s literati, these books were a stain on the city’s reputation.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
• Having it all District VII would have been a grand place to be in 1910, when the city’s grand bourgeoisie rubbed elbows with louche literati.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• The literati peppered him with questions, and Marks responded with pride.
  — Longreads, Longreads, 2 Nov. 2021
• The bread baked on Pepperidge Farm soon captured the attention of the Manhattan food literati.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2022
• Ernest Hemingway continues to pique the interest of the literati and tourists throughout the world.
  — Wayne Catan, idahostatesman, 20 Apr. 2018
• Beyond the bookstore, the literati are plunging into the virtual world.
  — Haley Velasco, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• By the late Eighties, Sorokin began to enjoy a modest amount of acclaim among the Russian-speaking literati, both at home and abroad.
  — Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Gamboa’s installation in fact, reads like a map to the region’s Chicanerati — the Chicano literati.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Even with fewer familiar literati winks, the music feels grand, anthemic, and fresh for the ambitious band.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
• Alert the literati — Susan Sontag is getting a biopic and Kristen Stewart is set to play the late writer-provocateur.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• But where does Claire’s consciousness-raising walk rank among the other great moments of celebrity literati?
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
• Following the literati party, Silvio and Lionel head to Donna, a dance party in Chester.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
• Who Is Vera Kelly? won’t exactly set the literati’s hearts aflutter.
  — Rayyan Al-Shawaf, Philly.com, 13 July 2018
• Both attract literati like Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker.
  — Rico Gagliano, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
• Though the literati might ignore it, Yellowstone’s appeal is easy to understand.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• Fellow literati knew him as a thoughtful editor who helped other A-list writers publish their best work.
  — Joseph P. Kahn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• The blogosphere’s literati have been abuzz about the betting odds published by British bookmakers Ladbrokes.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• In her 20-plus years in the city, Levin has worked herself into its small writers’ community and spends her workdays at the Grotto, where the city’s literati congregate to scribble.
  — David Ferry, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
• Within minutes, the dance floor was covered by a joyful wave of party-goers, not held back by their black-tie attire, cutting the rug into the wee hours of the night, proving that event the literati know how to get down.
  — Vogue, 21 Nov. 2019
• Detroit’s Broadside Press, led by the poet Dudley Randall, became a nationwide outlet for the black literati.
  — Thomas J. Sugrue, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• By the 19th century, representations of the Diamond Mountains had extended past elite artists and the literati to folk figures, and a market for images of the peaks had taken hold.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• Speakers included friends, family and fans, as did the audience, a mix of New York literati, Hollywood stars and the writers working today who owe a debt to Didion.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• Visions of Roman villas and Chinese literati gazing at mountains give way to back-to-the-land hippiedom circa Ken Kesey, then to wellness retreats and the eco-bunkers of catastrophist millionaires.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• To judge by the roster of contributors, this disparate nation consists mostly of distinguished literati.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• Florence interviews and then lands what must surely be one of the most coveted gigs for any young person yearning to break into the inner circles of the literati: personal assistant to Maud Dixon.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
• But Eliot was lionized by many people who didn’t read his poetry, whereas Longfellow’s books were devoured not only by the literati but by ordinary readers.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• At least the first two take place within the high-fashion glitterati and the back-stabbing literati of London, respectively — settings that the production designers practically eat up.
  — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
• Both artists practiced at a time when Chinese gentry-intellectuals alienated from Mongol rule sought refuge in the literati life far from court, consoled in exile by their predecessors and the melancholy mood-echoes in nature.
  — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
• Despite selling big in his time, his catalogue has fallen into relative obscurity compared to the celebrated literati who were his peers.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024