well-read

Example Sentences

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Bailey chalks this hesitancy up to education, but Motta says it’s not just that, noting that many pet parents today are well-read.

From The Wall Street Journal

Whitney books, and he was very well-read about the perils of Whitney.

From Los Angeles Times

He was well-read and intelligent, but young and unproven.

From Literature

Any well-read person is likely to consider the rise of the modern nation-state to be a distinctly mixed bag, as the history of the last two or three centuries has demonstrated.

From Salon

He has been Joe Goldberg, the well-read manager of a New York City bookstore.

From Los Angeles Times