well-read

Example Sentences

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Meter readers mainly, well, read meters, while telemarketers made calls timed to your dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

Frame described ObeySumner as “an extraordinarily thoughtful person, well read, well researched.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2023

There's a lesson there for the 2023 list: aside from the most well read of folk, don't expect to recognise a lot of the names.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023

I'm a lot more well read than people know.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2021

“Might as well read, I guess,” he said, and then, after a minute, “Say, Doctor. I don’t like to bother you, but listen to what it says here in this book....”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson