Sentence examples for reading at university from inspiring English sources

We once used to ask, "What are you reading at university?" In those words lies the clue to what a university education is supposed to involve.

I had done a lot of reading at university – Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and much more – and become convinced of the importance of organic food.

I was rather starstruck when I first arrived in Sarasota; many of the field scientists I met on my first day are the authors of papers I have been reading at university all year.

—Larissa MacFarquhar From all my hours of reading at university, I have an oddly clear memory of the last scene of "The Winter's Tale," where King Leontes is shown an incredibly lifelike statue of his wife, Hermione, who died sixteen years earlier, after he unfairly accused her of unfaithfulness.

There were two lines from a poem by Wallace Stevens that Mai had read at university: "Being, becoming seeing and feeling and self/Black water breaking into reality".

Well, there aren't many beautiful girls in Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, which I first read at university in the 1990s, as a recommended text in my Caribbean fiction class.

I am currently halfway through it and have been thinking of Zola's Germinal, which I read at university, and Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair [trilogy], which I devoured more recently.

In the sixth form, his interest in the social world coalesced with his passion for the natural world (he was an ardent and lifelong bird watcher) to make geography seem the obvious subject to read at university.

In 2006, the year after my first novel was published, I gave a poorly attended reading at a university in San Francisco.

There are Lu Xun museums in at least four Chinese cities, and his works - very carefully selected, these days - are required reading at the universities.

Two and a bit centuries later, when I was reading Economics at university, we respected - even revered - Smith.