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How to use reader in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Reader means a person who reads. Example: “Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.”

Examples of reader by meaning

nounA person who reads.

  • an early reader, a talented reader

nounA person who reads a publication.

  • 10,000 weekly readers
  • In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”2018 July 13, Jaime Marie Davis, “How photographers have captured skateboarding through generations”, in CNN, archived from the original on...

nounA person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.

  • They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 123

nounAny device that reads something.

  • a card reader, a microfilm reader
  • The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures.2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27...
  • A quick search on Kaiser's website, there was nothing that talked about plate readers or a usage policy.2023 December 1, Da Lin, “Privacy advocates accuse Kaiser of not following state law on license plate readers”, in CBS News, archived from...

nounAn elementary textbook for those learning to read, in a native language or a foreign language.

  • Appletons’ School Readers
  • The Columbian Orator was an elocution manual as well as a reader for school children in the new republic.1997 [1797], David W. Blight, “Editor's Introduction: The Peculiar Dialogue Between Caleb Bingham and Frederick Douglass”, in Caleb...

nounMarked playing cards used by cheaters.

  • LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1, page 286
  • Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."1991, John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception, page 185

More sentences with reader

  • Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.From the entry book
  • Expansion of acronyms is often helpful for nonexpert readers (anacronyms excluded).From the entry expansion
  • It is essential for the reader to appreciate how important this argument is.From the entry appreciate
  • I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.From the entry pimp
  • We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.From the entry toll
  • A basal reader is a kind of book that is used to teach reading.From the entry basal
  • I've been reading a lot of graded readers and interlinears lately.From the entry interlinear
  • Readers are to be warned that quotations in this chapter contain some not so savory language.From the entry savory
  • The controversial article triggered a deluge of angry letters from readers.From the entry trigger
  • The details of the ordeal can be distressing to some readers.From the entry distressing
  • Teenage angst-ridden poetry may not be to the liking of all readers.From the entry angst-ridden
  • I am not a speed reader, I am a speed understander.From the entry understander
  • Readers do not fixate on short function words, but instead see them parafoveally.From the entry parafoveally
  • The later edition of the book sequenced the chapters differently, which caused a lot of confusion among non-technical readers.From the entry sequence
  • I am a great reader of fiction.From the entry fiction
  • Hundreds of readers were tricked into sending them money.From the entry into
  • The Greek monks always listen to their reader recite Psalms 83, 84, and 85 from the Septuagint at nones.From the entry nones
  • I'm a slow reader but a good speller.From the entry speller
  • Each writer offers a unique flair to readers.From the entry flair
  • The reader looked up the Sunday morning pericope.From the entry pericope
  • Some readers do not care overmuch for poetry.From the entry overmuch
  • The readers were expecting things to be a little more direct, and so they're probably feeling a bit flounderish.From the entry flounderish
  • In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader.From the entry genus
  • Good netiquette dictates that one warn of spoilers before discussing them, so that readers who wish to do so may experience the surprises for themselves.From the entry spoiler
  • An automated license plate reader is positioned between some trees at the entrance of Lowe's in Newington.2026 May 6, Jayne Chacko, “License plate readers now at Home Depot, Lowe's Home Improvement stores”, in NBC Connecticut, archived from the…. From the entry Newington
  • Hold your OV-chipkaart against the card reader to the right of the gate.2025, “Checking in and out”, in ns.nl, Dutch Railways, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2025, retrieved 13 Jun 2025. From the entry check in
  • Matt Semrad is an avid reader and devours audiobooks from the library — about one a week.2023 July 2, Brandon Griggs, “We’re multitasking while walking our dogs. Animal experts say this is a problem”, in CNN. From the entry audiobook
  • But while the idea of an underground fascinated readers and writers, it had not achieved definitional stability.2023, Lara Langer Cohen, “Introduction: A Basement Shut Off and Forgotten during the Nineteenth Century”, in Going Underground: Race…. From the entry subterraneity
  • Learning grapheme-phonemes correspondences helps children decode and blend words more easily, making them more fluent readers.2023 February 1, Mattew Lynch, “Grapheme-phoneme Correspondence (GPC)”, in Pedagogue, United States, archived from the original on 06 Sep…. From the entry grapheme-phoneme correspondence

Meaning of reader

  1. noun A person who reads.
  2. noun A person who reads a publication.
  3. noun A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.

Full definition of reader

Questions about reader in a sentence

How do you use reader in a sentence?
Reader is used as a noun. For example: “Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.”
What is a short sentence with reader?
“10,000 weekly readers”
What does reader mean?
Reader means a person who reads.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reader (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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