How to Use the literati in a Sentence

the literati

noun
  • The book has been collecting laurels from both the literati and the trades.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But in the 20th century as in the 18th, democracy turned out to be more durable than the literati feared.
    — Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • There is no more intimate way to become a member of the literati than by catching your favorite writer’s whooping cough.
    — Blythe Roberson, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • Book Gossip, a newsletter about what the literati are really thinking, is entering a new chapter.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
  • But Adams’s expectations were disappointed, no less than Madison’s hopes for the literati.
    — Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • Such minute attention to class is rare in recent American novels not set among the literati or ultra-wealthy, and still rarer in books that aren’t comedies.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • This article first appeared in Book Gossip, a newsletter about what the literati are really thinking.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026
  • This article first appeared in Book Gossip, a newsletter about what the literati are really thinking.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 3 June 2026
  • Hujar name-drops big names in the literati throughout the film, like Fran Lebowitz, so the film also serves as a who’s who in the New York City creative scene of the time.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In the 20th century, new mass media such as radio and television offered politicians a way to address the American public directly, without the mediation of the literati.
    — Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • Incorporated into the city in 1860, this former hamlet was the haunt of Molière and the literati, and later a hotbed of Art Nouveau residences by architect Hector Guimard (the creator of Paris’s iconic Métro entrances).
    — Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026
  • The 185-room Anantara New York Palace, once the European headquarters of the New York Life Insurance company, is home to the late 19th-century New York Café, a ravishing Renaissance-style room bedecked with crystal chandeliers and marbled columns the literati once flocked to.
    — Alia Akkam, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024

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