How to Use well-read in a Sentence
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The nine writers in our workshop were passionate, present, curious, rigorous, and, as a group, well-read across several languages.
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Literary Hub,
15 Dec. 2025
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The stars were well-read and well-spoken, and academically motivated, some graduating in three years.
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Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Open-minded, passionate, forthright and brave, Eva is well-educated, well-read, adventurous, generous of spirit, a world-traveler.
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Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
2 June 2026
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The same parents who built our algorithmic economy now limit their own children’s exposure to it, creating a new kind of digital divide—one where being unplugged and well-read are the ultimate luxuries.
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Liz Doe Stone,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Grandma Bobby is well-read and well-traveled, glamorous and opinionated (speaking of usually-right old women), the old-school, no-nonsense daughter of a girl who walked out of a pogrom and emigrated to New York.
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Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
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Imperial China’s literate and well-read bureaucracy encouraged detailed record-keeping and historical inquiry.
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Literary Hub,
19 Nov. 2025
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Heeding these cryptic words some three decades later, the audacious (and well-read) impresario Tony Wilson opened the Haçienda together with the circle of post-punk musicians and designers involved with his label, Factory Records.
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Andrew Holter,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2025
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Heeding these cryptic words some three decades later, the audacious (and well-read) impresario Tony Wilson opened the Haçienda together with the circle of post-punk musicians and designers involved with his label, Factory Records.
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Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
9 Jan. 2026
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