D. Lit.

abbreviation

1. Doctor of Literature.

Example Sentences

But a “bookstore” can also mean a “pop-up” business like Loc’d & Lit, which has a mission to bring “the joy of reading to the Bronx,” the New York City borough that had been viewed by the industry as a “desert” for its scarcity of bookstores.

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“I was beside a fellow who had got his arms bandaged up—I’d simply got my right arm bandaged. He was trying to light his pipe but couldn’t get on very well so I offered to fill and light it for him. But when I’d lit it I suddenly realized he had nowhere to put it, as he’d had his lower jaw blown away. So I smoked the pipe and he smelt the tobacco, that was all the poor chap could have.”

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“I liked you better before,” admitted my cousin, who’d complained whenever I’d lit up but was now annoyed I couldn’t go bar hopping with her.

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The two checked into the Meatpacking District’s Soho House late one December night after the candles he’d lit accidentally set her apartment on fire.

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Lee says he lined up matches on his desk sometimes, and told himself he wouldn’t stop writing until he’d lit 12.

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