Examples of readerly in a Sentence
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Like a poem, a poll should also anticipate as many readerly perspectives as possible, wording questions so that everyone from avid readers to people who haven’t touched a novel since grade school can understand them.
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Literary Hub, 4 June 2025
Zink, like Batuman, is unwilling to construct an elaborate plot for the purposes of readerly satisfaction—surely a laudable resistance.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
But then the readerly culture that embraced her male contemporaries—such as Lord Dunsany and James Branch Cabell—didn’t really grant her much attention, either.
—Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
Enjoying the genius of Lem requires readerly dexterity and a willingness to go wherever the author takes you.
—Scott Bradfield, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2020
However, a rare and unenviable fate was already beginning to close in on the Count: that of being confused in the public mind—or at least the readerly mind—with an alter ego.
—New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
To ascertain meaning from such powerfully ambiguous novels requires a measure of readerly improvisation.
—Dustin Illingworth, latimes.com, 31 May 2018
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Literary Hub, 4 June 2025
Zink, like Batuman, is unwilling to construct an elaborate plot for the purposes of readerly satisfaction—surely a laudable resistance.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
But then the readerly culture that embraced her male contemporaries—such as Lord Dunsany and James Branch Cabell—didn’t really grant her much attention, either.
—Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
Enjoying the genius of Lem requires readerly dexterity and a willingness to go wherever the author takes you.
—Scott Bradfield, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2020
However, a rare and unenviable fate was already beginning to close in on the Count: that of being confused in the public mind—or at least the readerly mind—with an alter ego.
—New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
To ascertain meaning from such powerfully ambiguous novels requires a measure of readerly improvisation.
—Dustin Illingworth, latimes.com, 31 May 2018
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“Readerly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/readerly. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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