How to Use literature in a Sentence

literature

noun
  • 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.
  • This one is, once again, dragged from the pages of literature.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • One of the best ways to learn about a locale is through its literature.
    Katherine J. Igoe, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The other rule is the best pieces that haven’t been collected on film, literature, and jazz.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The film follows Gabriel, a young literature teacher, who has just moved to Rio.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Then again, lust in music, art and literature is one of Vienna’s great gifts to the world.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The literature of work begins in childhood but doesn’t end there.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Van Doren loved literature, and was a great exponent of it.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The first hawk watch was organized at the site in 1951, according to Hawk Ridge literature.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022
  • 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 | Crobinson@al.com, al, 5 June 2023
  • And we are constantly led to believe, in literature, art, music, films that if you are notloved in a certain way, you’re not really loved.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Pivotal figures within the arts, literature, and fashion are featured including Amy Sherald and Andre 3000.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 17 Mar. 2025

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