well-read

How To Use well-read In A Sentence

• He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur, neither well-read nor well-educated, and he made no great contribution to enlightened social converse.
• Surrounded by the most dour cast of characters known to man, Paul Merton suddenly seems excessively articulate, intelligent and well-read.
• Readers of Lincoln's era would likely be surprised at our well-lit homes, and it's likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be. Steve Leveen: Seven Ways Electronic Books Will Make Us Better Readers
• respect for a well-read man
• Yes, yes, family isn't a great place to seek out feedback, but he's well-read and at his word to not "sugarcoat" his critique. Here Comes The Crunch
• He was well-read in Greek and Latin literature and found his favorite authors among the great pagans expositors of tolerance and secularism - Plato, Plutarch, Cicero, the Skeptics and Epicureans.
• They were mostly old, tattered, and evidently well-read paperbacks. A RODENT OF DOUBT
• You are well-read, literate; more so than some of my friends. A MEANS TO EVIL
• Though his book is not based on extensive archival research, it does rest upon 30 years of reflection and synthesis by an extraordinarily bright and well-read military historian.
• In the course of her research Colegate, who is evidently well-travelled and well-read, has wandered both locally and exotically, fanning out from her own garden in Wiltshire where she restored an ancient hermitage.