How to Use scholarly in a Sentence

scholarly

adjective
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  • She has a scholarly interest in music.
  • His writings have been recently given scholarly attention.
  • Young Ratzinger was apparently a shy and scholarly boy who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
    — Jay Parini, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • But amid today’s fierce polemics, even scholarly discussion of the term is fraught.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Studies published in scholarly journals showed the foam broke apart in heat and moisture.
    — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Much scholarly work has been conducted on the workplace and its impact on the workforce.
    — Bill Adams, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • Hoover denies that the burns are part of her scholarly work and says that she had been invited by the tribal chairperson who hosted the burns.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This is why the Fashion and Race Database’s newsletter reads nothing like a scholarly text.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Their rabbi, Samuel Rosenblatt, had a scholarly mien and a formal manner.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a scholarly intellect, academia, behind it, and there’s so much felt emotion.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The Ivy League school, which for years has been delving into its ties to slavery, pledged to widely distribute free copies of a scholarly book of its findings.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Sebastián Yatra will be helping a student at Berklee make their scholarly dreams come true.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Their love of the music of all genres is evident in the group’s chameleonic efforts but truly gleams in this scholarly discourse about the meaning of hip-hop.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Here, every scholarly tool is wielded to tell this story that a woman wrote herself and still could not see coming.
    — Hannah Gold, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Academic and scholarly books are rehashings of primary sources, which is why all of those books have 500 footnotes at the end.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
  • Bru Zane’s booklet, running to a hundred and sixteen pages, is a scholarly resource in itself.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Described by those close to her as scholarly and bookish, Ms. Tsai is known for caution and understatement.
    — Paul Mozur, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • But the show would need to decide whether Harvard students are star-struck by a TV personality or inspired by a great scholarly mind.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Every scholarly book also reflects a soul that has become crooked; every craft makes crooked.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The trove is also the subject of continuing scholarly research on Celtic trade networks.
    — Jeff Zymeri, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Her father was mild-mannered, scholarly and a perfectionist — the latter a trait passed on to his eldest daughter.
    — Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • For Kruk, the war sometimes translates more readily into her scholarly world.
    — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but… those long, penetrating looks?
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 6 July 2023
  • Each essay is scholarly and packed with gems of observation.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Ueda hails from a scholarly background unusual for a Bank of Japan governor.
    — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Menswear tends toward the scholarly, with its reverence for the archival and incessant fussing over heritage and tradition.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, in the decade after Heller was decided, courts overwhelmingly uphold gun laws—by one scholarly estimate, around 90 percent of the time.
    — Michael Waldman, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The historian and native San Antonian wrote three of them, plus more than 80 published scholarly works.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 6 July 2022
  • But a comment in the Science piece from Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the journal, is a reminder that even some key players at the pinnacle of scholarly publishing seem to have slept through multiple alarms.
    — Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, STAT, 2 Dec. 2022
  • So what more appropriate time to look at academic romances with scholarly leads?
    — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023

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