Sentence examples for literate at from inspiring English sources

They were literate, at least moderately well off, and manifestly alienated from the world around them.

But an estimated 5 to 10 percent of slaves — 200,000 or more — were literate at the outbreak of the Civil War.

By 1910 Japan was almost fully literate, at least for the young, and by 1913, though still very much poorer than Britain or America, Japan was publishing more books than Britain and more than twice as many as the United States.

While this form of assessment does test an important aspect of being quantitatively literate, at best, the affective components of quantitative literacy are measured as a secondary consideration and discussed merely as they relate to achievement but not as they interrelate (e.g., TIMSS, PISA).

They are not musically literate at all.

More than seventy percent of all U.S. prisoners are literate at only the two lowest grade levels.

It's banal and also semi-literate at times.

I just accepted that.' A former chief economist at Shell, Cable said he was 'semi-literate' at school: 'I couldn't even get punctuation right.' He read natural sciences at Cambridge, then switched to economics.

The mason, probably semi-literate at best, was surely reproducing his own speech in his warning that Death as no respect to Youth or his record of another young man's passing which grieves is friends in mind, two Shropshire specimens from the mid-1800s.

Toilet-trained at 3 weeks, computer-literate at 3 months -- it makes me glad that I was born long enough ago that banging measuring cups and babbling counted as developmental progress, not indulgent down time from the real work of growing up.

The school now turns out literates at a rate of 200 a week, and since its activation on Jul. 12, 1943, has graduated something over 13,000 men.