Examples of “literary” in a Sentence

adj Relating to literature, especially fiction, poetry, and other creative writing.

• She has a strong literary background, having studied English and Comparative Literature.
• The literary prize is awarded each year to an outstanding new novel.
• He edits a small literary magazine that publishes poems and short stories.

adj Suited to formal or artistic writing rather than everyday speech.

• The report used a literary style that felt out of place in a business memo.
• Words like "thou" and "hath" sound literary and are rarely used in conversation.
• Her emails were too literary, full of long, elaborate sentences nobody wanted to read.