How to Use erudition in a Sentence

erudition

noun
  • Gene would use the erudition as a weapon on Ebert and vice versa.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Johannes writes letters on her behalf, but his erudition may work against her.
    — Dan Cryer, Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
  • Crudeness wraps itself in erudition like two kids in a trenchcoat.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2023
  • So much for erudition when a 73-year-old artist asks himself the big question.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 July 2022
  • These movies are a showcase for Steve’s attempts at erudition.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 20 May 2020
  • Both assembled courts where erudition and good taste mattered.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The playful title, taken from a Prince lyric, is matched by the wit and erudition in the essays.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • There also seemed to be a terrible sadness behind the satire and erudition.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • Throughout the novel, in fact, adults use their great erudition for the purpose of childlike gushing.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The long first act drags near the finish, its erudition blurring into dramatic monotony.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 June 2024
  • His cast is various, their inclusion in a collection like this helped very much by their learning and erudition.
    — Book Marks september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Horowitz’s erudition, combined with his energy, is a powerful sales tool.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • David Ogden Stiers didn’t really speak with the stuffy erudition of Maj.
    — Michael Ordoña, latimes.com, 10 June 2019
  • Harold Bloom was one of the leading critics of his generation, and there is no question about his erudition.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Anybody who drops a little erudition into the boiling pot of comment stew naturally gets a leg up.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Sep. 2017
  • With skill and erudition, Rosefeldt’s film surveys the aftermath.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 May 2017
  • Ferrante writes with sparkling erudition about everyday struggles — to be a woman, to be poor, to yearn for someone who yearns for another.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • On the page, her fabulous erudition was melded to a frankness that was so unaffected as to seem effortless.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Here we’re treated to a different life of the mind; Moss roams freely through their consciousnesses but meets little in the way of erudition.
    — Lucy Scholes, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The best central bankers strive, with all the benefit of their erudition and experience, to be as boring as machines anyway.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • While for many years the chief rabbi of England, his wit and erudition gave his ideas wide purchase beyond just the confines of the Jewish world.
    — Tevi Troy, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Shrubsole, the silver dealer, is known for erudition and connoisseurship.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Mokyr knows Asian history, and shows, in a truly humbling display of erudition, that in China the minds evolved but not the makers.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
  • The book retains its author’s trademark blend of erudition and wit—and his insistence that markets really are efficient.
    — Daniel Akst, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Macfarlane has always been a generous guide in his wanderings, the glint of his erudition softened as if through the welcoming haze of a fireside yarn down the pub.
    — Literary Hub, 16 July 2024
  • And what happens when both of those pianists happen to come from an island that long has produced instrumentalists of colossal technique and deep erudition?
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Fauset’s work at The Crisis showcased a remarkable display of erudition, leaving me eager to learn about her own writing life.
    — Glory Edim august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • An artistic savant of wide erudition, Terry had written reviews and other pieces for our books and arts pages as long ago as 1987.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Here, Didi and Gogo have none of that potentially distancing — or self-shielding — erudition.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Ray is the rare Renaissance scholar who writes with both erudition and charm for a general audience; the book is as engaging as a highbrow novel.
    — Norman Weinstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2024

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