How to Use erudite in a Sentence

erudite

adjective
Definition of eruditenext
Synonyms for eruditenext
  • This gives the book the feel of a late-night dorm-room bull session of an erudite sort.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Many of the erudite friends of the U.S. diplomats disappeared.
    — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Grab a copy of one of these page-turners and start living the life of the erudite sofa spud.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 23 Dec. 2019
  • And the erudite charmer who was her first long-term boyfriend and who died of cirrhosis of the liver in his 40s.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • There was always a sense of the erudite, a sense of humor, a real man inside the freakish body.
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 5 July 2017
  • Leave it to the erudite Pau Gasol to place an exclamation point between the ellipses.
    — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • There’s probably a much more erudite version of this on the EFF website.
    — Roger Huang, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The grand finale of the week was a tour of the home of Gunsite’s late founder, an imperious and erudite racist named Jeff Cooper.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Among the habitués who befriended the erudite young server was the writer Henry Miller.
    — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
  • His role as Brainy Smurf, the glasses wearing, erudite blue creature, earned him new fans.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Buttigieg, one of the top fundraisers in the field, impressed many Democrats early on as a young, erudite, gay war veteran.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Now an erudite 33-year-old, he’s more often known as Eddy.
    — James Reginato, Town & Country, 23 June 2022
  • In the telling of a life lived through books, and in her own sometimes floridly erudite sentences, the deep magic of writing is revealed.
    — Nina Renata Aron, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Birth was Boston — not the erudite one but a namesake village in upstate New York.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • And Tate was there to put it all in the most erudite intellectual context.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Nur’s erudite Persian father, Ghiyas Beg, was among the latter.
    — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • Spencer Klavan, one of the two grooms, has an inspiring, erudite podcast, Young Heretics.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Aug. 2022
  • There is little doubt that, of these two first-time readers, the erudite and the uninformed, Eliot would lean toward the second.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • There was the erudite-but-humble professor next door and upstairs.
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • This list of books would probably take me a year to read, so kudos to Eduardo who clearly doesn’t mind the dense and erudite.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Munger comes on more arrogant and erudite, while Buffett comes on modest and folksy.
    — Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Such insights give a glimpse into the lively, open-minded and erudite story that Lawrence tells.
    — Patrick T. Reardon, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
  • In a congenial end-of-year piece, Knight takes us down the rabbit hole of Baldessari’s erudite yet humorous thinking.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Vogue’s ploy to draw the erudite designer out of his bustling East London studio for a breath of fresh air during the final sprint to his spring 2022 show has paid off.
    — Julia Hobbs, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Grok, after all, is trained on X’s huge years-old archive of user posts, and many of those aren’t exactly erudite.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The reviews on the site became as erudite as those of the music magazines that Pitchfork had all but eclipsed in influence.
    — Devin Leonard, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
  • Earnestly coined terms, by contrast can be too staid, too erudite, too intent on making the coiner look smart.
    — Ralph Keyes, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Leader of the formidable crew is Chaka (Yann Gael), a handsome, smart and erudite type.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The great joy of it for me is Fredericka, the youngest daughter of the family, bursting with bratty joy at her own erudite intelligence.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 28 June 2024
  • Any goofy yet erudite group of writer-performers from the greater Commonwealth inherently bears the influence of the legendary British sketch troupe.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 24 July 2024

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