How to Use erudite in a Sentence

erudite

adjective
  • This gives the book the feel of a late-night dorm-room bull session of an erudite sort.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Probably not the kind of erudite matter that the parties wish to get mired in.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Because even his emails are literary, this one was erudite and friendly.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Reading Sam’s bio simply doesn’t do such an erudite soul justice.
    — Sue Callaway, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Marty is an erudite man of letters who has long wanted to meet one of his favorite writers.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There was the erudite-but-humble professor next door and upstairs.
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • And many obsolete terms and legal words that can flummox even the most erudite readers.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Munger comes on more arrogant and erudite, while Buffett comes on modest and folksy.
    — Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • His role as Brainy Smurf, the glasses wearing, erudite blue creature, earned him new fans.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
  • And Tate was there to put it all in the most erudite intellectual context.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Put on the costume, wear the expression, slip on the spectacles, and present yourself as erudite.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Jack Whitaker, one of those clients, was a sportscaster known for an elegant and erudite style.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 17 Mar. 2025
  • 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 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
  • This is both a page-turner and a raw but erudite expression of a totally unique consciousness.
    — Molly Young, Vulture, 4 June 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
  • 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
  • Leave it to the erudite Pau Gasol to place an exclamation point between the ellipses.
    — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • Nur’s erudite Persian father, Ghiyas Beg, was among the latter.
    — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • That Neil Gaiman was gracious, erudite, brilliant, and concerned for others.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Birth was Boston — not the erudite one but a namesake village in upstate New York.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Among the habitués who befriended the erudite young server was the writer Henry Miller.
    — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Hawke renders Hart as the most erudite barfly to buzz around mid-century Manhattan.
    — Kyle McGovern, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There’s probably a much more erudite version of this on the EFF website.
    — Roger Huang, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
  • 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

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