Sentences with aliterate
a·lit·er·ate
A a - Mark Twain famously said "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can't read" or more succinctly: the aliterate has little advantage over the illiterate.
- Schools are worried about producing aliterates who prefer television to books.
- That's a problem because the point of McGruder's style of pop-cultural subversion is to get the revolutionary message into the minds of the unthinking, aliterate media consumer.
- In the article, Allemang discusses the growth of the ‘ aliterate ’ reader - people like us who are educated and may even think of ourselves as dedicated to the written word.
- But, from whichever direction it is approached, the same gulf lies between literate and aliterate minds.
- Through a national program called The Big Read, the NEA is committing resources to motivate aliterates to read again.
- Lots of aliterates, according to Trelease, say they just don't have time to read anymore.
- Most aliterates watch television for their news, but the entire transcript of a television newscast would fill only two columns of the New York Times.