LITERATURE in a Sentence

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79 example sentences for LITERATURE, such as:

1. But we won't discuss literature.
2. They can't relate to modern literature.
3. English has a rich vocabulary and literature.
4. One time I hear you talk against English literature.
5. I shall take literature and mathematics this spring.

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 Meanings and Examples of LITERATURE
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literature
 n.  imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value; art or occupation of a literary writer
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  One time I hear you talk against English literature.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  Even in literature, the highest and most spiritual art, the forms are often confused.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  The adventures related in the literature of the Wild West were remote from my nature but, at least, they opened doors of escape.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
4  He wanted to say that literature was above politics.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
5  Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
6  Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
8  But we won't discuss literature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
9  Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
10  Of course, there's the whole of English literature to choose from.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
11  Clifford seemed to care very much whether his stories were considered first-class literature or not.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  It was the other world he wanted to capture, the world of literature and fame; the popular world, not the working world.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  It was far more interesting than art, than literature, poor emotional half-witted stuff, was this technical science of industry.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  Leslie Winter was attached to Clifford, but personally did not entertain a great respect for him, because of the photographs in illustrated papers and the literature.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  I have made a small study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature of the subject.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  Art and literature flourished and this set the pattern for the whole of Europe.
17  He cared not a whit for the social, political or moral aspects of literature.
18  The professor has posted himself up on the modern American literature.
19  They can't relate to modern literature.
20  English has a rich vocabulary and literature.
21  From his youth Nobel had taken a serious interest in literature and philosophy.
22  I shall take literature and mathematics this spring.
23  Her daughter likes reading the classics of English literature.
24  A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama.
25  Plus, a narrative bibliography is included to provide a discussion of the professional literature and topics covered in the book.
26  All I need add is that, whatever its quality, your story will be received in favour of the glory of literature.
27  During most of Western history, the term literature included all writing that was worthy to be known by educated people.
28  This discovery of literature has as yet only partially penetrated the universal consciousness.
29  A literature professor by training and a self-taught art connoisseur, Charles Ryskamp served three decades as director first of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
30  The moral decadence of the people was reflected in the lewd literature of the period.