How to Use literature in a Sentence

literature

noun
  • Can you send me some literature about your product?
  • She took courses in history and literature.
  • Her education gave her an appreciation for great literature.
  • He's an expert in American literature.
  • The point of trans lit is to find out what literature can do.
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • This one is, once again, dragged from the pages of literature.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • And that’s the role of great literature.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Art and literature love a nice girl—and then proceed to give her a rough time.
    — Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 29 May 2024
  • And to do that through literature in the vein of the great classics felt right.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Oh, this needs to be the book that starts this huge journey for me in literature.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • And that was, of course, almost the whole literature was about that one bird.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In such a world, literature cannot serve much moral purpose.
    — Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That makes the very idea of awards in literature filled with landmines.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Will the syllabus plant a life-long love of literature?
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • There was no literature to search.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • When did literature get less dirty?
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Lifting literature off the page is no small feat.
    — Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This function of literature was not tough to spot.
    — Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Razieh and Mahtab had forged a bond in prison over their love of literature.
    — Azar Nafisi, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Those efforts were good and showed classic literature has more ideas to mine.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Your parents are both artists — your mom was an art and literature teacher.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The two women were close friends, sharing a love for both literature and dogs.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 8 Oct. 2025
  • People do, though, in literature as in life.
    — Eliana Ramage september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • So yeah—literature had a big premium in my house, for sure.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • Academia had slowly killed the literature in her, Ypi told me.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Yeah, so, and this is a quote from Leonardo’s own literature here.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 24 June 2026
  • And your first reading of literature started more or less when?
    — Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
  • His letters are a treasure trove for art and literature lovers.
    — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • The literature of work begins in childhood but doesn’t end there.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • My background is in art and literature.
    — Lucy Handley, Big Think, 25 Aug. 2025

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