exemplarin a sentence
- She is an exemplar of a generation that gets its news from tweets because articles are too long. (source)
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She is an exemplar of hard work and average luck making The American Dream come true.
exemplar = excellent example
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She is an excellent exemplar of the modern woman.
exemplar = example -- especially one that represents the ideal
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"It's embarrassing that piddly little projects like ours should serve as exemplars," Farmer told me.
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exemplars = examples -- especially those represents the ideal
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an unmatched exemplar which he would contemplate at one moment with the humble, spiritual, disinterested mind of an artist, at another with the pride, the selfishness, the sensual thrill of a collector.
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exemplar = ideal example
- took as an exemplar one who had been praised and famous before him, (source)
- Long before that, they were my first real exemplars of a happy and loving marriage.† (source)
- The man shoved Hatter, who stood his ground, an exemplar of restraint.† (source)
- The city is now an exemplar of low-density sprawl.† (source)
- I no longer cared to be an exemplar of womanhood in the county.† (source)
- Yet he—a relisher of life, a seeker after experience—had been my exemplar; and it was to his town that I drove.† (source)
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- Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action... (source)
- after having been pointed out for so many years as the perfect exemplar of thriving bachelorship (source)
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He designed to give them a word of counsel, setting before them as exemplars in the religious life those very worshippers of...
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exemplars = examples -- especially those represents the ideal
- This was more than any of his predecessors had accomplished, but he fretted nervously over his accounts until he found that he had become, for the circulation manager, the exemplar for indolent boys.† (source)
- Keenly aware of his role as the exemplar of the self-made man, he played the part with an intense and poignant consistency that give his performance the quality of a high art.† (source)
- But much as he wished to be an exemplar in these things he could not get on.† (source)
- He considered that he might so mark out his coming years as to begin his ministry at the age of thirty—an age which much attracted him as being that of his exemplar when he first began to teach in Galilee.† (source)
- it was not in itself a jewel of benevolence or wisdom, yet he made it an exemplar of both that one would have liked to have a copy of.† (source)
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What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the past and with what exemplars?
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exemplars = examples -- especially those representing the ideal
- In the church, Roman, Anglican or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very reverend John Conmee S. J., the reverend T. Salmon, D. D., provost of Trinity college, Dr Alexander J. Dowie.† (source)
- At the bar, English or Irish: exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K. C., Rufus Isaacs, K. C. On the stage modern or Shakespearean: exemplars, Charles Wyndham, high comedian Osmond Tearle (died 1901), exponent of Shakespeare.† (source)
- The odd fair Saxon here and there …. ah, Laoghaire, the perfect exemplar.† (source)
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