How to Use literati in a Sentence

literati

plural noun
  • One of those lunches was with me, at Michael’s restaurant, a fishbowl in those days for the literati.
    — Amy Fine Collins, Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The literati peppered him with questions, and Marks responded with pride.
    — Longreads, Longreads, 2 Nov. 2021
  • For some members of Hong Kong’s literati, these books were a stain on the city’s reputation.
    — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Beyond the bookstore, the literati are plunging into the virtual world.
    — Haley Velasco, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Even with fewer familiar literati winks, the music feels grand, anthemic, and fresh for the ambitious band.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
  • But where does Claire’s consciousness-raising walk rank among the other great moments of celebrity literati?
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Though the literati might ignore it, Yellowstone’s appeal is easy to understand.
    — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Fellow literati knew him as a thoughtful editor who helped other A-list writers publish their best work.
    — Joseph P. Kahn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Ernest Hemingway continues to pique the interest of the literati and tourists throughout the world.
    — Wayne Catan, idahostatesman, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Both attract literati like Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker.
    — Rico Gagliano, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
  • The bread baked on Pepperidge Farm soon captured the attention of the Manhattan food literati.
    — Fox News, 24 June 2022
  • Gamboa’s installation in fact, reads like a map to the region’s Chicanerati — the Chicano literati.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • This social satire of snobby London literati is about authors, their lovers and muses, and the class dynamics that attract and repel them.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The depictions of the New York literati scene, with its backbiting and wary camaraderie, are effective but all too brief.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2025
  • To judge by the roster of contributors, this disparate nation consists mostly of distinguished literati.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The blogosphere’s literati have been abuzz about the betting odds published by British bookmakers Ladbrokes.
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • By the late Eighties, Sorokin began to enjoy a modest amount of acclaim among the Russian-speaking literati, both at home and abroad.
    — Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • While the other literati tackled heavy topics, Plimpton’s engaging, conversational prose goofed around on the fringes of pro sports.
    — Stephen Siff, The Conversation, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Following the literati party, Silvio and Lionel head to Donna, a dance party in Chester.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
  • Alert the literati — Susan Sontag is getting a biopic and Kristen Stewart is set to play the late writer-provocateur.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Within minutes, the dance floor was covered by a joyful wave of party-goers, not held back by their black-tie attire, cutting the rug into the wee hours of the night, proving that event the literati know how to get down.
    — Vogue, 21 Nov. 2019
  • But Eliot was lionized by many people who didn’t read his poetry, whereas Longfellow’s books were devoured not only by the literati but by ordinary readers.
    — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • Detroit’s Broadside Press, led by the poet Dudley Randall, became a nationwide outlet for the black literati.
    — Thomas J. Sugrue, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In her 20-plus years in the city, Levin has worked herself into its small writers’ community and spends her workdays at the Grotto, where the city’s literati congregate to scribble.
    — David Ferry, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • At least the first two take place within the high-fashion glitterati and the back-stabbing literati of London, respectively — settings that the production designers practically eat up.
    — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
  • So much attention still focuses on the American and European expat literati that gave the place its slightly seedy, counterculture reputation.
    — Graham H. Cornwell, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Speakers included friends, family and fans, as did the audience, a mix of New York literati, Hollywood stars and the writers working today who owe a debt to Didion.
    — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • By the 19th century, representations of the Diamond Mountains had extended past elite artists and the literati to folk figures, and a market for images of the peaks had taken hold.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Both artists practiced at a time when Chinese gentry-intellectuals alienated from Mongol rule sought refuge in the literati life far from court, consoled in exile by their predecessors and the melancholy mood-echoes in nature.
    — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Advertisement There have been three prominent murderers who were released after high-profile interventions by the well-meaning literati, whether conservative or liberal.
    — John J. Lennon, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2023

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