How to Use literate in a Sentence

literate

1 of 2 adjective
  • The job requires you to be computer literate.
  • What percentage of the population is literate?
  • She is literate in both English and Spanish.
  • The house in which I had been raised was literate but not artistic.
    — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This was not a revolt driven by the literate few.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Does that mean that people are less literate in general?
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2025
  • This is a period that some people call post-literate.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
  • His daughter, now 33, is literate with a high-school diploma.
    — John D. Harden, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
  • What will be next, some semi-literate game show host in the Oval Office?
    — The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Most Maya were not literate, meaning this would have been a special tribute.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2022
  • Here’s everything our last literate leader read and loved over the summer.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • To be literate in the language, a person must be able to read and write at least three thousand characters.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Add a deal literate accountant who can tie financials to the story.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Less than a third of the population is literate, and even fewer have access to clean water.
    — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 17 June 2019
  • Trump’s tweets are just kind of semi-literate, but Vance can actually bite.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
  • This is a smart, literate, intellectual city that has an ethos of wanting to care for your neighbors.
    — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Before the rise of radio and television, the poster offered a way to reach a range of people, literate or not, all at once.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • In literate societies, writing has long been recognized as a way to help people think.
    — Fortune, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Or that my grandma would become computer-literate enough to Zoom with me every few weeks.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2022
  • MacPhee’s reading of images and their uses is literate and astute.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 2 June 2022
  • All of which seems to suggest that all the classy, literate, upmarket crooks have thrown in the towel and moved on to other pursuits.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • My grandmother, who was the only literate one in our family, would write strange musings.
    — Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Outside those walls sits one of the poorest, least literate communities in the nation.
    — chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • And even at the bigger firms top decision makers often aren’t literate in the language of climate risk.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
  • There’s good reason to believe that a post-literate society will also be a post-moral society.
    — Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • It was made at a time when people were less media literate and less aware of their own authorship and representation.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Christopher is also quite articulate and literate, and funny and eloquent in his speech.
    — Michele Herrmann, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2021
  • This novel of a post-literate, dystopian world is set in a village on the shores of Lake Superior.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Financially literate people tend to build more wealth, live happier lives and even have better health outcomes.
    — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This is particularly true for women, who are less likely to be literate or employed in the formal workforce.
    — Yasaswini Sampathkumar, Wired, 4 Jan. 2021

literate

2 of 2 noun
  • And adapt it for younger kids, perhaps adding emoji-like icons for the pre-literate.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The easiest way to do this will be to become low-code, no-code literate.
    — Iain Scholnick, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • The comics-literate will tell you that there is a good reason for all of the mannered strangeness.
    — Joshua Rivera, The Verge, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Your workforce now, and in the future, wants better health and to be more health literate.
    — Sean Slovenski, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • The growth of the single malt market and the interest in rarity and uniqueness grew out of a wine-literate consumer base.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • There weren’t nearly enough tech-literate agents to fill the scores of new job openings in the NIPC.
    — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Still, Lorenzen, the mental health counselor, urged people of all ages to be social-media literate.
    — Alexie Zollinger, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2021
  • There is no end to its willingness to pander to those literate in Golden Age musicals.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 16 July 2021
  • Data literate staff are better equipped with the knowledge to find and access data to make more informed business decisions.
    — Sharad Varshney, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Kalder’s point is the disquieting one that the worst tyrants of the past century were hardly the brutal less-than-literates of our imagination.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
  • And don’t be afraid to seek help from a professional, like a grief-literate therapist, if your usual support system leaves something to be desired.
    — Tayla Blaire, Glamour, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Lin said this is a good thing because not everyone with pending immigration cases is computer literate.
    — Kate Morrissey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • Both of my parents were able to get vaccinated in Texas only because my tech-literate siblings ensured that our folks had appointments.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The only way to do this effectively is to hire the correct data-literate individuals.
    — Mike Bugembe, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • The full economic potential of AI in healthcare won’t be achieved if the tools are only utilized by the healthiest and most tech-literate.
    — Lisa Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Because the vast expansion of state Medicaid and other entitlements has trapped more people into thinking that a low-grade life without work is good enough. Because public schools leave the young semi-numerate and semi-literate.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • While not sequential, each maturity level must be addressed as a business follows its unique path, at its own pace, to develop a data-literate workforce.
    — Sarah Nell-Rodriquez, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Local and state sign-up portals are impossible to navigate, even for tech-literate adult children trying to enroll their elderly parents.
    — John Knefel, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Every student, regardless of their occupation, will need to be data-literate in order to succeed in a world where data will increasingly be king.
    — Carlos Melendez, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Hart-Wells entered the race to ensure students are scientifically and data literate.
    — Lorraine Longhi, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Last year, Indian banks launched a mobile payment system that after a simple sign-up process allows the less-tech-literate to make payments and transfer money from their accounts with their phones.
    — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2017
  • By listening to patients, clinical studies have been designed to be more accessible, convenient, health-literate and simple.
    — Fabio Gratton, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Such a cinema-literate approach added meta-textual wrinkles to Dear White People’s racial commentary.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2020
  • As with the internet itself, bitcoin’s first adopters were mostly the highly computer-literate and the highly criminal, followed by speculators.
    — Rob Curran, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Western Europe’s literate elite, the clerics, by definition, did not have legitimate heirs, and so modeled a life outside of family networks.
    — Razib Khan, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Even if students aren't planning on going into a computer science field, being technology-literate is a valuable skill needed in today's professional world.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Kathryn Bigelow, the director, and Alexandra Bell, the arms-control expert, are both nuclear-attack-submarine literate.
    — Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • New York's Dave Gettleman, who famously is not very computer-literate, appears to be planning to operate with just a single small laptop and a massive binder.
    — Nick Schwartz, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The program makes sure to emphasize that students leave the program bilingual, bi-literate, and with a strong sense of biculturalism, which Herod believes is key to a student’s total immersion in the program.
    — Ryan Nickerson, Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2020
  • In today’s hyper pop-culture literate landscape, any show that draws from a wealth of source material like this one risks its fans using their knowledge of that material to get precariously far ahead of the story that’s being told.
    — Adam B. Vary, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2021

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