Sentence examples for he's literate from inspiring English sources
"He's literate aesthetically and culturally," Mr. Waldheim said.
(That's a rare combination.) He's literate in all kinds of rhythms and song forms, and his bands collect excellent young players in different idioms.
In Kevin Mahogany's sets, you hear a broad index of jazz singing, from Nat King Cole to Jon Hendricks to Joe Williams; he has a big voice with a wide range, and he is literate in the music's history.
In Aleichem's stories, Tevye is not learned, but he is literate enough to pepper his conversation with biblical references in the original Hebrew.
Homer's role in the writing of the poem and whether he was literate have been a source for rich scholarly debate, commonly referred to as the "Homeric Question".
"He was literate, knowledgeable and passionate," said Lynn Garafola, a professor of dance at Barnard College.
I still can't do joined-up writing.' Once he was literate, there was no stopping him: he whizzed through Dickens and Shakespeare.
Seven years before the voting act was passed, Jose Camacho, a Puerto Rican-born grocer in the Bronx, had unsuccessfully sued over the literacy test, saying he was literate in Spanish, though not in English, and should be allowed to vote.
He was literate in the physical science of his time, and acquainted with many of its most eminent practitioners.
As Adnan Aurangzeb says, "Swat was proud of its record on education… one way to identify a Swati outside of Swat was that he always had a pen in his chest pocket, and that meant he was literate".
