How To Use Literate In A Sentence

My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
Other inscriptions discovered are Sanskrit mantras transliterated in Tulu script.
The ensemble playing is lock tight, the soloists are eloquent; the seven pieces (five of them composed by group members) are literate and stimulating.
Soldiers assigned to staff positions must be computer-literate and seek training for the operating systems and programs they will use.
Daddy was obliterated and the Chief reigned supreme!

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He was quick to learn and was literate in both English and Irish and had a good understanding of the Brehan law.
Only highly literate people are capable of discussing these subjects.
Our literacy rate falls year by year, and even many who can read do not read, the so-called aliterates.
Even in 1935 they were being sent an ‘astonishing amount of illiterate and unintelligent writing’, but practised readers spent little time on it.
Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over.
The book with its various signatures and the exhibition title encapsulate the continuing dynamic of the oral-literate interaction over the Treaty. Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand
It was into this lawless milieu that Devi was born, the second daughter of a low-caste illiterate farmer.
But this light relief could not obliterate the all-pervading sense of crisis, disillusion and frustration in the country.
When you come to the world of weblogs for the first time you will probably find to your horror that they are written by foul-mouthed illiterates, self-obsessed juveniles (of all ages), assorted bigots and swivel-eyed fruitcakes.
In the case of English the answer is obvious: everyone in today's society needs to be literate and able to communicate well.
The missile strike was devastating - the target was totally obliterated.
Lots of aliterates, according to Trelease, say they just don't have time to read anymore.
‘He had taken a very early portable video camera to film the Yanomami Healing, a preliterate Amazonian tribe,’ says Talen.
The record has been much deformed, reconstituted, and obliterated during the subsequent Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons.
She tried to obliterate all memory of her father.
Sending computers won't do much at all if people are illiterate never mind *computer illiterate* and starving. Let the train wreck begin
People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
Where even the vinously literate search in vain for clues, getting down on their knees to turn over handfuls of soil or gazing down from the crest of the slope in utter bewilderment.
During World War II, he served with the United States Air Corps ‘Statistical Control,’ where he helped determine the most efficient way to obliterate Japanese cities.
And a lot of our people are elderly and a lot of them are uneducated, illiterate.
Hannity is a illiterate, non-educated Northeastern bohunk with a big yap and no brains. Think Progress » Hannity: Snow Storms ‘Seem To Contradict Al Gore’s Hysterical Global Warming Theories’
One round from this could obliterate half the head of anyone of you and still have enough forward motion to continue onward for another 50 feet.
Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am.
The most key ingredient is a scientifically literate work force and general population.
The lateral leaves of somatopleure then grow round on each side, and, meeting on the ventral aspect of the allantois, enclose the vitelline duct and vessels, together with a part of the extra-embryonic celom; the latter is ultimately obliterated. I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta
I'm disturbed that so many of the students appear to be illiterate.
Over one-quarter of the adult population are not fully literate.
The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
They couldn't communicate in writing, because William was illiterate.
Such a change is only likely to come about when the majority of that group is populated by truly computer-literate individuals.
‘You have a more literate, educated and aspirant population in the working class and they are naturally moving towards either middle-market tabloids or broadsheets,’ he says.
Putting aside the hugely significant issues of the native Americans and African slaves whose rights were obliterated, the United States was built upon the promise of the unassailability of individual rights. THE STORY OF STUFF
Sierra LeoneEnglish (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) Languages
Every single one had to be vanquished, killed, destroyed, obliterated, and dead.
Why is it so hard to find a moderately theologically literate reporter?
We are, as the experts like to say with a horrified sense of wonder, aliterate - able to read, and read well, but disinclined to do so.
‘You could create a campaign that reached every computer-literate voter,’ says Cuban.
Because he was literate and articulate, he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years.
Either spacetime could be made to fold, skipping ninety lightyears and putting the colony ship only seven years away from the earthlike planet that was its destination, or the ship would obliterate itself in the attempt . . . or nothing would happen at all, and it would crawl on for nine hundred more years before reaching its new world. Pathfinder
In particular, businesses expect pupils leaving school to be literate and numerate.
They tell their own story, simplysometimes ungrammatically and illiterately, but nevertheless irresistibly. Cries of Despair and Society’s Problems
In 1990 the World Bank estimated that half the population was illiterate (could not read or write).
People are defined as illiterate when they do not conform to a set of cultural criteria defined by the ruling elite of a particular society.
Over one-quarter of the adult population are not fully literate.
All of a sudden the view was obliterated by the fog.
But in China you not only hide them but also obliterate all facts about such aspects.
They come from humble backgrounds and some are non-literate, but what they all share is a desire to serve others.
People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
The labouring poor of Shakespeare's London, deformed by drudgery, illness, and accident, tormented by vermin, illiterate and unregenerate, must have presented a certain Calibanesque aspect.
To say of Socrates that he is human is to say what he is, whereas to say that he is literate is not to say what he is but rather to give a quality that he has.
Some of the more literate ones did write down a few particulars soon after the fracas in letters to friends and relatives.
A very peculiar, literate yet threatening bagman, Fred, accosts him.
This "pederastic" metaphor stems in part from the fact that the Greeks of the first literate centuries read exclusively out loud: through his writing, the writer is supposed to use the reader, the indispensable instrument for the full realization of his written word. Teach Me Tonight
We are certainly given no clues that these flashes of black indicate that Julie is ‘denying her memories’ or that she is trying to repel her memories and obliterate the past by regressing to a time before memory was active in her as a subject.
Is English not your mother tongue or are you just plain illiterate? Think Progress » Clinton: If Obama Offers Peace Plan, ‘I Will Support It’
Children were not allowed to attend public schools and many were illiterate; reading and writing being ‘unnatural’ technologies that would corrupt the children.
Dwight was a literate scholar, president of Yale College, and no slouch when it came to descriptive if overheated passages.
The goosefish is practically invisible lying flattened, with its darkly marbled skin matching the bottom color and the outline of its body obliterated by a fringe of branched skin flaps.
Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literateness, wiped out. The Girl Wanted
Any security system can be hacked, as computer-literate teenagers prove every day.
Automatons, illiterates and indigents of every shape and size, don't stop but aid this cruel crusade participate in their own demise.
I'll see if I can figure this out, you must keep in mind that I'm a computer "subliterate". David-What would you do without Kip?
People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
States, in his treatise on 'The School Question,' is that, while the illiterate convicts in the California penitentiary, at the date of the report, numbered 112, against 985 who could read and write, '_among the younger convicts they could all read and write_'. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
I feel that two furious winds obliterate noodles but lead, then appeared 2 rightnesses to dash away a ground of feet scaleboard in view, "Xiu" a Shan entered a crystal temple so big palace door.
A grey drizzle filled the valley, obliterated the mountains and separated the receding regiment of trees into saw-edged platoons.
More surprising is the fact that even the most enlightened and computer-literate parents choose to put the family computer in the son's bedroom, thereby creating access problems for a daughter who would rather like to use it, too.
You must have felt that even the formula of the Church of Rome would be a blessed power to exercise, could it but once be accepted as a pledge that all the past was obliterated, and that from that moment a free untainted future lay before the soul -- you must have _felt_ that; you must have wished you had dared to Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
Unlike the subliterate cretin presently occupying the White House, Carter was one of the few presidents of my lifetime who was a consistently impressive extemporaneous speaker. McCain: Obama Would Equal Carter's Second Term
In the rural areas, priests ministered to a largely illiterate population and, among them, were viewed with some deference for their literacy, their links to local elites, and their contacts with the wider world.
There are people with severe literacy problems who cannot find work, people dependent on alcohol and drugs, people unable to manage their ordinary lives or to ensure that their children become literate, numerate or even ambitious.
The village was totally obliterated by the bomb.
I bet it would be more accurate to say that they illiterately finalized the deal this week. COMMENTS OF THE WEEK
The syndic was her tenant, and bowed down to her, and the rest of the illiterate officials followed his lead. Taquisara
The sign hamza also represents a glottal stop and is transliterated in the same way.
AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marque type Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Canadian commentator Colby Cosh (hey it's Sunday, I'll alliterate if I want) has posted a quick thought on the comparative welfare recipient counts between Alberta and Saskatchewan.
A nation four-fifths peasant and two-thirds illiterate was industrialised, urbanised and educated within 30 years.
The Catch: In an effort to obliterate the term "boondocks," the government finally provides rural areas with access to faster Internet (and possibly America Online). Esquire.com Article Feed
His ideas found a receptive audience in literate circles from Lisbon to Moscow, and they supply a convenient starting place for an examination of European political systems.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. George Orwell
One teacher remembers his early drawings as ‘scribbles’; others recall rudimentary figures obliterated by cross-hatching.
'I've never really understood why you didn't just obliterate the enemies with a wave of your hand. THE TREASURED ONE
The government retained the monopolies on salt and iron, but it became clear that many of the Confucian literates saw his actions for what they truly were.
It's even read to illiterate factory labourers while they work.
His lack of sentimentality, his preoccupation with sex, and attention to often sordid reality were attractive to a large section of Italy's growingly literate public.
Every illiterate good-ole-boy speaks in sparklingly correct prose, with the occasional Southern idiom thrown into the mix.
In those aneurysms which are a _saccular_ bulging on one side of the artery the blood may be induced to coagulate, or may of itself deposit layer upon layer of pale clot, until the sac is obliterated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
The first was the semi-literate, naive nature of the letters implying these are some of the least educated, least switched on members of society, often on income support or some other kind of benefit.
For someone who has made a career out of telling everyone how much more tolerant the world would be if only religion were obliterated from the human psyche, Dawkins manages to appear remarkably intolerant towards anyone who disagrees with him. Atheist insecurity « Anglican Samizdat
Most of our sources about the 'apiru are in the Akkadian language, and the Akkadians didn't have that sound, so they transliterated it with a "hah" sign. The Common Origin of and Split Between Arabs and Jews - An Interview with Professor George E. Mendenhall
His uncouth son who shows no respect to his illiterate father compounds the dilemma.
Combine television viewing with countless hours logged onto the Internet, and one could argue that Americans have degenerated into a society of semi-literate loners.
Its fattening qualities plumpen the tissues and so raise the lines of the face and gradually obliterate them. The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture
I liked the idea that he'd have to go clear to Camp David (it is pretty) to find a Southern Baptist minister (unless you go into Anacostia) near Washington... and isn't this the seminary that was started in the "disfellowshipped" (how literate is this denomination anyway?) Report: Obama's new pastor is Southern Baptist who studied at Southwestern | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
Ms. Suchaski said the Hatchechubbee Post Office is a place where locals trade news about births and deaths and the occasional loose cow, and where service extends beyond the mail, to helping some semiliterate customers pay bills. Post-Office Closure List Sent
I have language skills, I'm pedantic to stupendous heights, computer literate and I can fire and strip a pistol.
However, I did feel the book was written with the computer-literate reader in mind.
Or, if deciding between right or wrong was too taxing, they could simply text in semi-literate messages to the show instead.
Most aliterates watch television for their news, but the entire transcript of a television newscast would fill only two columns of the New York Times.
Obstacles obliterated, nuisances eradicated, bothersome limbs removed and tutelary dentistry. NEVERWHERE
Two days later the cards had arrived from Max, three of them in an envelope, on which the postmark was altogether obliterated. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
There are pictures galore of many different futharks, transliterated and translated inscriptions, some discussion - you name it.
Nominus says, “I bet it would be more accurate to say that they illiterately finalized the deal this week.” COMMENT OF THE WEEK WINS A PORNO
The waves went high as some cVillain knitters gave quite literate descriptions of methods and used words most often filtered and censored by otherwise hyper sensitive little interknit filters designed to moderate the durrty feelthy perverse words that may blind poor ignorant and unsuspecting interknitting surfers. Charlottesville Blogs
I think we designers are aware of this messiness, and overcompensate for it by attempting to obliterate every trace of it from our work.
That was one of the very worst periods, when the Prague Spring was a memory that had almost been obliterated by Propeller Most Popular Stories
Of course, a philosophy of confrontation licences any form of outrage and protest against it to be antimodern illiterate. Times, Sunday Times
Hiroshima was nearly obliterated by the atomic bomb.
The oddly alliterated Fervent Fray of Fraternal Fervor, written and directed by Thomas Thompson, is the second festival offering.
Plumadore, a third Marine whose body was thought to have been obliterated in ferocious fighting, is buried in California -- in Berry's grave. Jakovac, John A.
In ancient times, even in preliterate times, they must have been recorded in some form or another.
Its members were unskilled workers, mostly uneducated, occasionally illiterate and often unable to read or speak English.
They tell their own story, simply; sometimes ungrammatically and illiterately, but nevertheless irresistibly.
Ninety-five per cent of members in our NOP survey said the main priority for the Government should be to ensure that all young people leave school literate and numerate.
He funded books in a nation of illiterates and non-readers.
Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over.
He began to drink, drank himself to intoxication, till he slept obliterated.
The manner in which the Dodo were obliterated from the surface of the earth has left a lasting impact on the natural history of our global eco-system: in fact a lesson in extinction to humanity. A brief history of the dodo
He tried to see through her undeviating orthodoxy to her obliterated youth. MOONDROP TO MURDER
Russia has many assets: excellent scientists, a workforce that is ‘literate, numerate and co-operative’ and a reasonably educated population that is, in the main, peaceful.
The disadvantaged students for whom antielitist solicitude is expressed are the very ones who suffer when we fail to introduce traditional literate culture into the earliest grades. The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education
Then he disparaged my writing for being too illiterate for some but too literate for others.
They were semi-literate with very little English.
You come across as a subliterate Republican nitwit. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Attacks Hillary As Calculating And Divisive
Most 11-year-olds are not being encouraged to develop advanced reading skills; a small but significant number are illiterate.
But why should a man like him obliterate all these tracks in terms of sanitizing files and all these kinds of disposings that he was really doing, without having something to hide? The Outing Of Adolf
These paths will later be obliterated when the site is replanted and returned to a state of virtual nature.
Of course, I didn't stop listening to American music, but it was true that, after grunge, this new literate, articulate and understandable music was welcome.
As arguedin this panegyric from the British Observer website, the 30-episode surreal crime drama subtly revolutionized television drama, moving it away from the superficial episodicsof the 80s towards the meatier, more literate fare that’s become the modern bastion of cable television from The Sopranos on down. Miscellaneous Debris, March 2010 Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews
Now, an increasingly influential and literate middle class was sharing in making it and in the demand for it.
Through the fate of the one truly literate character in the novel, Thady's son Jason, the novel implies that writing offers no safe repository of title.
The villagers are mostly illiterate, so they have to go to intermediaries to get any official documents prepared.
The productive sector of the economy of any industrial nation demands a scientifically literate labor force.
Their lyrics are intelligent and literate, their music is full of melody, while their performance is always passionate - thanks to their powerful vocals.
The sly, literate prose filtered through wavering vocals still dwells in corners of life either too big or too small to express with such uncanny eloquence.
Because I've had this argument a couple of times, and the semi-literate conservatives are always sheepish, a little ashamed, of their lack of writing talent.
I am computer literate but I find surfing the net is only equalled in its vapidity by the banality of today's TV programmes.
It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives.
The threat comes not from some Whitehall johnny-come-lately, nor some politically correct illiterate chair of a focus group, seeking his day in the Sun.
The squire, Sir John Boileau, and the vicar, the Reverend Mr Andrew, were both highly literate men who didn't get on - and both kept diaries, largely about each other.
The degree of hateful violence expressed here by the anti-hunters, albeit nearly illiterately, is frightening.
'I've never really understood why you didn't just obliterate the enemies with a wave of your hand. THE TREASURED ONE
Back in the 19th century historians thought that 'marginalia' simply were the fancy of the artist and that the artist was illiterate," Hunt says. NEW BOOK ILLUMINATES MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
Utopian lines; there will be no illiterates unless they are unteachable imbeciles, no rule-of-thumb toilers as inadaptable as trained beasts. A Modern Utopia
To suggest that the number of monks who were actually literate is quite small should not be taken to mean that they had no experience with literacy or were completely unlearned.
The staff are usually smart, literate and weird, you can nick unlimited quantities of free books, and it's a great way to meet chicks!
The sign hamza also represents a glottal stop and is transliterated in the same way.
In an interview with the Guardian last year, he described them as a bunch of greedy, uncultured, semiliterate oiks. Alexander Lebedev: profile
These attributes are obliterated when it undergoes metamorphosis into a sessile polypoid adult.
They all started making films three decades or more ago, when documentaries were considered more than rhetorical bludgeons and instructional tools for the incurious and semi-literate.
'I've never really understood why you didn't just obliterate the enemies with a wave of your hand. THE TREASURED ONE
Most of us are familiar with the concept of literacy as it applies to reading and writing and it is generally accepted that being literate means being able to decipher the written word and compose written work.
Getting kids literate is easy with this well-built program! Reading – Sing, Spell, Read & Write Phonics Part 1 « General Literacy « Videos « Literacy News
In a preliterate world, there's no distinction between children and adults.
He was the antithesis of the archetypal young black man, particularly as those seen though pre-1994 racist eyes as being illiterate, arrogant, uncouth and untutored.
Support arrangements ranged from contracts with local repair shops to the phone number of the dealer's computer-literate kid.
A surprising percentage of the population are illiterate.
The intimate relationship between oral, literate, and indeed visual culture is worth recalling.
Educators in Ghana are aware that they must rid universities of hidebound thinking to produce more technically literate graduates who produce more for employers and Ghana's economy.
Cambarus spp. in the Northeast have no lateral spines on their rostra and the Procambarus spp. in the area have a narrow or obliterated areola.
Chenault has his semi-literate protagonist delivering words like "cloying" and lines like "in the squared circle of hell. 'Shadowboxer: Based on the Life of Joe Louis' at Maryland Opera Studio
Sending a triumvirate of trained pollsters and media men into the bumpkin's backwoods barrio, he hopes to help the honky-tonk hick win more than his fair share of the illiterate Appalachian vote.
If society at large became more literate then the clergy could more readily be recruited from the laity; they did not have to remain what they had come close to being, a hereditary caste.
Meanwhile, the paper gets bitten in two places by that chronic bug of semi-literates: the word ‘affect’ where ‘effect’ is meant.
When the person loses the capability to derive and create meaning in a culturally significant way, he or she becomes less, not more, literate.
We are shown into a miserable garret, and introduced to a vulgar, illiterate, cockneyfied, dirty, dandified linendraper's shopman, in the person of _Tittlebat Titmouse_. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
In the zenith was a white lustre which obliterated distinction of form as much as did the cloudy obscurity at the end of the room. Idolatry A Romance
So perhaps we should stop predicting the emergence of an illiterate, story-less generation whose only evolutionary advantage will be double-jointed Xbox thumbs. Don't fear the Reader: how technology can benefit children's books
A cross-cultural survey of the use of ethanol in 139 largely preliterate human societies, showed that in all societies in which drinking was present in one sex but not in the other, it was present in males.
She decided to obliterate her rather embarrassing question about love - Roy, you wretch, make up your complex little mind, will you? SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Here, computer-illiterate small-time capitalists can commit gaffes, like holding the mouse upside down, without being seen.
In the article, Allemang discusses the growth of the ‘aliterate’ reader - people like us who are educated and may even think of ourselves as dedicated to the written word.
During the Middle Ages, living pictures of biblical stories were used in churches to educate the illiterate masses.
But he, as only history knows, was an inept military commander, a lying, back-stabbing political opportunist, and, for good measure, mostly illiterate.
Indeed, one-million Quebecers are illiterate and can't read this simple phrase (although the rest surely can and will).
His gait was feeble, his form attenuated, his countenance had lost its ruddy glow, -- the lines had sharpened until their youthful, healthful roundness was wholly obliterated; but the nervous, untranquil expression had passed away from his face, and the restless glancing from side to side had left his eyes. Fairy Fingers A Novel
I guess the most basic difference is that sudoku is a puzzle of logic - not a puzzle of esoteric knowledge and literate playfulness.
On the other hand, the landdag and its symbols served in the place of writs and contracts, so that the actions of the nonliterate elders could be ordered and coordinated by the governor and the Council. How Taiwan Became Chinese
That they were able to do so handily and with a backward and politically illiterate film star as their standard bearer only underscores the dimensions of the Democratic collapse.
I'm also still bleary from the weekend: worked all day yesterday, stayed up too late on Saturday helping my UConn-fan wife obliterate the immediate past with mojitos and Classical Barbra, and was out too late on Friday witnessing The Bad Plus in the flesh and then finally meeting Ethan Iverson. I care not for Caruso
For Hartley, language is a highly “decomplex” motor activity that involves the cementing of associations between perceived and created sounds, and, for the literate, perceived and created marks: David Hartley
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. Nelson Mandela
Japan's reactionary Tokugawa shogunate employed gunpowder to obliterate troublemakers and then banned all guns—even its own—for the sake of preserving the samurais' sword-wielding hegemony. Where They Got Their Grit
However, we are using the term schizophrenia colloquially so as to not muddy our political-philosophical analysis with clinical analysis, a topic on which neither authors are literate. Anarchist news dot org - Comments
This was especially so among the clergy, many of whom were barely literate.
The Greek myths evolved a long time before they were ever written down, and originated in the preliterate cultures pre-2300 BC.
From her novels, I thought she was considerably more theologically literate and orthodox.
This illiterate douchebag just can't it through his thick head that he's in the wrong.
She avoids scholarly apparatus that would disaffect Hughes's loyal readership in particular and a literate public in general.
It would rather let them go out into the world illiterate or innumerate rather than suffer the supposed indignity of being told how to do something properly.
Shared experience beyond these things would have involved, for the literate among them, the Bible, or oft-recited poems and some popular books.
This is a residential program for illiterate to semi-literate girls between 12 and 18 years with the ambitious objective of returning them to Class 5 in formal schools.
He was uneducated and barely literate.
Today, a computer-literate immigrant to the United States never really leaves home.

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