How To Use Lettered In A Sentence

Those confronting the Raj here were poor, unlettered peasants.
Stupidity is closer to deliverance than intellect which innovates," is a phrase ascribed to a Mohammedan saint, and do not modern theologians report with enthusiasm, the unlettered condition of Jesus? Cosmic Consciousness
A violently lettered poster stuck to the glass commanded UNITE. THE WHITE DOVE
The board is carved in the baroque style of ornament, and resembles very closely the black, lettered placards erected in whitewashed country churches.
exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions

Across the windows of the storefront, Mr. Stolowitz had lettered FREE SHOES in huge strokes of brown latex paint.
No longer are you just up against the straight-A kid who lettered in four sports and whose minister wrote a letter praising his virtues.
In high school, she lettered in five sports - soccer, track, basketball, softball, and, with the boys, football.
And his unlettered parents and uncle also ‘supported my younger sister Madhavi’.
She handlettered a "no sale" sign.
His authority and wisdom being immediately established by such adjectives as "discerning" (discretus) and "lettered" (literatus), John claims that he has heard such accusations before, legitimizing a process already underway. 103 It is this combination of intellect and emotion, of learned law expert and mourning mother, of two responses gendered male and female, that, Matthew hints, led to the king's belief in the accusation and to the execution of nineteen Jews. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
She handlettered a "no sale" sign.
The name has been professionally lettered on in bright letters.
‘No ego here and hence no opinion,’ claimed Muthal, the unlettered president.
Envelope with my name carefully lettered in the handwriting I had long since learned to identify as Old Person, Angry. Good in Bed
There are relatively few amusement arcades but plenty of shops selling brightly-coloured buckets, spades, inflatable dinghies and beach balls, not to mention lettered rock and ices.
It seems common to consider the MFDP as a group of uneducated farmers or unlettered peasants, yet it was this party and these people who put their lives on the line in one of the most courageous acts of African political expression.
In each case, the parenthetical portion of the title in this series is lettered across the painting's lower edge in a classic upper-case Roman font.
She wearied of Rose's talkativeness, regarded the child's brightness as a kind of clowning, and in the way of a kind, unlettered, self-possessed mother, forgave her daughter for being intelligent. Beard
Another folio, Rochefort's History of the Caribby Islands, was lettered "Davies 'Carriby Islands," because the title bore the statement "Rendered into English by John Davies. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
Terminological lettered-words use in journalism is closely related with one of the three major language elements, language domain, which refers to the content that the text relates to.
The little inn at Lorette was then kept by a worthy host bearing the above-mentioned name, which was dingily lettered out upon a swinging sign, dingily representing a trotting horse, -- emblem as dear to the slow Canadian as to the fast American mind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
The message ought to be simple and block-lettered, so that a fourth-grader, if called upon, would be able to understand it," he said. Kaine on Wilder: No one's ever accused him of being too nice
My desk still remained; my unlettered neighbour would have little use for a writing desk. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
All cases should be numbered and lettered, that is, each section should have a number, and each shelf a letter. The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books
When she straightened up again, I saw she was holding a book: a black-bound tome with a worn, unlettered cover. NIGHT SISTERS
But on the whole, this is a great book to give to your colleagues in the humanities who think that anyone who does mathematics must be an unlettered philistine.
Log of _The Humane Hopwood_, which heretofore had been a kind of cabalistic Register, full of blots, crosses, half-moons, and zigzags, like the chalk score of an unlettered Ale-wife. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
These units thus provided a continuous process of turning unlettered barbarians into literate Roman citizens.
Toward the center of the island, well apart from each other on higher ground partially hidden by brush and trees, I could see a couple of frame houses, one of them in tumbledown condition; unpaved access roads led up to each property, and at the foot of each drive was a mailbox with a name lettered on it. Hoodwink
While at the academy, he lettered in football, played in the 1987 Freedom Bowl and was a member of the academy's 1989 rugby team, which won the collegiate national championship.
A number of the interpretations are fairly literal, which suggests the perspective of an unlettered audience.
The card was neatly lettered P.A. DUFFY.
Look at the lettering -- that is, the labels lettered with the titles of books -- in all libraries that are not of recent date. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
I have no need to "worship" a three lettered word (your fictitional character, god), I am content. بالاترین
The participants in these protests were unlettered peasants and tribals, and we know far more of their deeds than their words.
The winners of the incentive portion of the futurities received a lettered jacket in addition to the money.
He handed me a note, folded neatly down the middle and lettered in flowing calligraphy.
FEMA managers smiled like the cavalry had come in; men in lettered jackets began directing men in hunting fatigues to various quadrants of the city. August 31st, 2005
His cousins were less fortunate: they remained without a proper education; and would have to face the poverty and boredom of a narrow world of unlettered squireens.
Instead of a conventional graphic logotype, the emblem is simply the legend ‘Fair Trade ‘hand-lettered and underlined.’
Being filthy dirty is not funny (as my mother always used to tell me when she caught me using too many four-lettered words), at least not by itself.
The inscription was in pencil - big, bold capitals, lettered by a young child's hand: MOM and DAD.
A red-haired Cuban refugee used to take offense at nearly everything I uttered, finding me unrefined, unlettered, vulgar, and a bore.
The collage elements intricately play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts.
They of course demeaned themselves by demonstrating on the lawn outside the council room like a mob of unlettered students - but that is the way of the unreal world of academia.
And in the kneehole hung a sign, hand-lettered in red ink on white paper, which read Mme. The Five of Hearts
The answer was on his lips even before his eyes discovered the boat she carried on top of the fo'c'sle, with her name lettered upon it. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories
They come from all walks of life, all nations, rich and poor, educated and unlettered, religious and secular, respectable and underworld.
They point to hand-lettered reminiscences in the margins about his digressive rediscovery of the country, which took him from washing dishes in a Sydney hotel to membership of an Aboriginal community near Darwin.
The group logo comprises a giraffe, the animal rendered as if cut out from paper, lettered in a rounded classical font with exaggerated ascenders on the letter ‘f’.
Also lettered three times in volleyball as a middle blocker and outside hitter. USATODAY.com
These volumes can be lettered in ink on the canvas, or in gold on a colored leather label pasted on the cloth. A Library Primer
At times he comes across as a lettered, affectless Jeremy Clarkson France's car dependency gives the lie to "that universally preached, seldom practised, utterly trite and entirely unrealistic doctrine of sustainability," says Meades, with as much feeling as if he were reading out a recipe for crêpes suzette. TV review: Jonathan Meades on France; Bouncers
He was handsome, unlettered, and an excellent horseman.
It is, in fact, impossible for us moderns, educated in a long literary tradition, to live our lives as naturally and naïvely as the unlettered of to-day, or the people of the preliterary geological epoch. Without Prejudice
It must be refaced and relettered; there are five errors. The Life of Charlotte Bronte
She is enchanting but unlettered, wild and rough.
Anya noticed that the dog heads were wearing collars: a pink one with a dangling rhinestone tag that said Princess; a camouflage collar stenciled with the name Grumpy; a black leather collar that had the word Bashful lettered on it in silver charms. Sparks
Except for a few brief exceptions, he always pencilled, lettered and inked his own work at the rate of one page per day - no more, no less.
On the ground at her feet a straw boater with a lettered band around the crown. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
Kenney graduated from high school in Iowa City, Iowa, where he lettered in football.
Though packaged like his other work in hand-lettered, Scotch-taped sleeves (its title varies from copy to copy), it's his first release ever to be sold in stores. Chicago Reader
And those faceless multitudes, often unlettered, usually uneducated, have been able to guess it right.
The cytological map divides the chromosomes into numbered regions, which in turn are subdivided into lettered intervals.
He was just as interested in its corrosive effect on those who claimed to bring civilization to the unlettered heathen.
special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society
Mrs.Dalloway. 8vo, gilt-lettered burgundy cloth, slightly cocked, spine ends lightly rubbed, a bit of toning to endleaves; original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, scattered overall darkening and rubbing, spine panel toned and with an uneven 1/4-inch chip at head affecting "M" of Mrs (small cellotape repair on verso), and few minor chips at foot not affecting lettering. first edition in the scarce dust jacket. 2009 October 01 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
You are quite wrong to suggest that only the doltish unlettered can possibly believe in them.
Boldly striped and lettered in red and green, the bunting is passed forward from hand to hand over the waving arms of a cheering crowd and, quickly gathered, disappears.
I would also have had him tell us the nature of that white belt which crosses the sky, which you call the ovarious belt, "Khatt-i-abyâz", and we the milky-way, and which we consider to be a collection of self-lighted stars, while many orthodox but unlettered Musalmâns think it the marks made in the sky by "Borak", the rough-shod donkey, on which your prophet rode from Jerusalem to heaven. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
Horse racing is big in New Zealand, and, before the advent of electronic displays, the bookmakers lettered horses' names on white wooden boards in heavy black sans-serif characters.
He will be perhaps a radiating center of altruism, devoted to his friends, a level-headed protector of the working classes, a patron of the arts in his own clearminded, unlettered way. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)
The group logo comprises a giraffe, the animal rendered as if cut out from paper, lettered in a rounded classical font with exaggerated ascenders on the letter ‘f’.
But look again. A hand - lettered a green sport - utility vehicle reads: " Just married to the pump.
Yes, he had relettered them and hoed the weeds out. Chapter VIII
Many young recruits, committed but unschooled in any sort of visual language, often resorted to producing hand-lettered placards in workshops subject to state harassment and sabotage.
A red-haired Cuban refugee used to take offense at nearly everything I uttered, finding me unrefined, unlettered, vulgar, and a bore.
He lettered in basketball at Brandeis.
The buildings were lettered for easy identification, in alphabetical order from east to west.
For this reason, the only ones in the enemy's ranks who awakened his commiseration were the lowly and unlettered dead interred beneath the sod. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.
I did, however, join the golf team for one year in high school just so I could say I had lettered in a team sport.
He backstrokes away and then cautiously around the counter, lettered in black: ANUBIS Swinoujscie, trying to keep away from those screws. Gravity's Rainbow
Spooky's even going to be doing a couple of the black velvet/red silk "cozies" to accompany lettered editions of Frog Toes and Tentacles. The days grow larger, and the year keeps shrinking.
There are 26 lettered copies half-bound in black Asahi cloth and hand-made marbled paper.
The Small Heath WRP unfurled their banner, elaborately lettered white on red. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
Indeed, he maintained, ‘an unlettered man with God's grace can do more for the building up of the church than many graduates’.
They of course demeaned themselves by demonstrating on the lawn outside the council room like a mob of unlettered students.
I now have two lists, one for crates, lettered A-L and one for boxes, numbered 1-14.
She uses spam titles or subjects from her junk mail folder to illustrate her hand lettered typographic designs. January 2009
The source of it was plain -- an open door under a vast white signboard dingily lettered Hilda A Story of Calcutta
The army divided all those bunkers off into ten blocks, and lettered the blocks from A to J, and then numbered the bunkers. THE WAILING WIND
His mom lettered in volleyball and basketball in college. USATODAY.com - When it comes to pitching, left-handers get extra benefits
He described himself as ‘unskilled in every way, an unlettered exile’.
Here let me enter my protest against the literary preciosity which derives the word from (_un_) _chanté_ and spells it 'chanty' -- in other words, against the gratuitous assumption that unlettered British sailors derived one of the commonest words in their vocabulary from a foreign source. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
But some of that detail-what is Mamet eating? and what is the word lettered on the doll he's clutching? The Comics Journal
Freeney lettered in four sports in high school and was an outstanding soccer player before making the switch to football.
The book being lettered, you can immediately turn to whatever article you want; and, by adding interleaves to each letter, may extend your minutes to what particulars you please. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Certain villages have decided to squabble, when even the unlettered tribes band together to defend us. HAMMERFALL
The immediate postwar era witnessed the proliferation of black community-based organizations, often led by unlettered men and women.
He's an unlettered, un-bookish ignoramus, remember?
In fact, there are more clauses than that, because a number of clauses have additional lettered clauses.
On the ground at her feet a straw boater with a lettered band around the crown. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
Yet the names of donors are lettered on the walls, museum-style.
At the tea break I asked the prosecutor whether he could not but admire the fluency with which an apparently unlettered man was conducting his own defence.
Burkoth lettered in soccer.
It was but a chest of shittimwood, with two slabs of lettered stone in it, -- and what help was in that? Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
One morning they had got up to find a slip of pasteboard leaning against the wire, neatly lettered in angular gothic characters. DISPLACED PERSON
Your mention of scribes writing down whatever unlettered men have dictated does not prove anything; he did not dictate whilst others sat writing!

How To Use Lettered In A Sentence

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