How to Use scholarly in a Sentence

scholarly

adjective
  • She has a scholarly interest in music.
  • His writings have been recently given scholarly attention.
  • But that wasn’t the end of her scholarly journey by a long shot.
    Tao Leigh Goffe, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Like many cities with a long and scholarly past, Hanoi is a café culture, and the streets are clogged with coffee stalls.
    Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
  • To own a scholarly or first edition of a favorite book is a way to honor its place in your life.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Caras took a painstaking, scholarly look at all the critters that can kill us, and his is a book without bullsh*t.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 June 2020
  • Young Ratzinger was apparently a shy and scholarly boy who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
    Jay Parini, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • But amid today’s fierce polemics, even scholarly discussion of the term is fraught.
    Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The premise of the film has to do with a scholarly project to write biographies of the nine thousand French people who’d been deported to this camp.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2021
  • In a big-idea book, which this aims to be, those scholarly and stylistic virtues need to serve a striking argument.
    The Economist, 8 May 2021
  • Studies published in scholarly journals showed the foam broke apart in heat and moisture.
    Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Much scholarly work has been conducted on the workplace and its impact on the workforce.
    Bill Adams, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • The Author Clock features a scholarly design with a solid white oak frame and a polished brass base.
    Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Dec. 2024
  • If nothing else, such scholarly debates should help ensure a steady stream of Lincoln books for years to come.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Libraries have been filled with scholarly works about Fitzgerald and his most famous work.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • According to Yale, the team plans to put their work and findings in scholarly articles.
    NBC News, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Hoover denies that the burns are part of her scholarly work and says that she had been invited by the tribal chairperson who hosted the burns.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • It’s one of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable.
    The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The 1619 Project has emerged as a watchword for our era — a hashtag, a talking point, a journalism case study, a scholarly mission.
    Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
  • This is why the Fashion and Race Database’s newsletter reads nothing like a scholarly text.
    Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • There was a scholarly work on Pierrot, the sad clown of the commedia dell’arte, and two books of literary interviews.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2022
  • There has been an off-and-on spate of scholarly research about highway hypnosis.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Toward that end, Stewart’s work has been scholarly and aimed at a broad audience.
    Deborah Vankin Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Melaku is an academic, and the book is rich with theory and scholarly research.
    Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Their rabbi, Samuel Rosenblatt, had a scholarly mien and a formal manner.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • His scholarly mind is chock-full of quotes, anecdotes, history, even facts.
    Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
  • There’s a scholarly intellect, academia, behind it, and there’s so much felt emotion.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The Ivy League school, which for years has been delving into its ties to slavery, pledged to widely distribute free copies of a scholarly book of its findings.
    Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • And even today people continue to sort out their subtler points, forming a scholarly throughline all the way back to ancient times.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Many of these startups position themselves as AI search engines centered on scholarly research—each with differentiating product features and target audiences.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024

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