LITERATURE in a Sentence

Learn LITERATURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
79 example sentences for LITERATURE, such as:
1. But we won't discuss literature.
2. He dipped deep into Western literature.
3. She has been diving into the Chinese literature.
4. He has read many of the major works of literature.
5. One time I hear you talk against English literature.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LITERATURE
literature
 n.  published writings in a particular style on a particular subject
 n.  the humanistic study of a body of literature
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  One time I hear you talk against English literature.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  Even in literature, the highest and most spiritual art, the forms are often confused.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  The adventures related in the literature of the Wild West were remote from my nature but, at least, they opened doors of escape.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
4  He wanted to say that literature was above politics.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
5  Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
6  Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
8  But we won't discuss literature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
9  Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
10  Of course, there's the whole of English literature to choose from.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
11  Clifford seemed to care very much whether his stories were considered first-class literature or not.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  It was the other world he wanted to capture, the world of literature and fame; the popular world, not the working world.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  It was far more interesting than art, than literature, poor emotional half-witted stuff, was this technical science of industry.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  Leslie Winter was attached to Clifford, but personally did not entertain a great respect for him, because of the photographs in illustrated papers and the literature.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  I have made a small study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature of the subject.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  He was invited to lecture on American literature at our college.
2  He has an intimate knowledge of American literature.
3  The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downwad tendency.
4  The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downward tendency.
5  He dipped deep into Western literature.
6  He was an expert on ancient Chinese astronomical literature.
7  She has been diving into the Chinese literature.
8  I was asked to lecture on Chinese literature yesterday.
9  It helps children to develop an appreciation of poetry and literature.
10  I shall take four different examples from contemporary literature to illustrate my point.
11  A study of language should feature in an English literature course.
12  You can't fully appreciate foreign literature in translation.
13  He has read many of the major works of literature.
14  He regularly gives lectures on modern French literature.
15  There is a move to liberalize literature and the Arts.