Sample Sentences for
consummate
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consummate as in:  consummate professional

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She is the consummate professional who never lets her personal life intrude on her responsibilities at the office.
consummate = perfect or to an extreme degree
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    Then there's the fact that Snow made no escape attempt, when I know him to be the consummate survivor.  (source)
    consummate = perfect and complete in every respect
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    He is a consummate gentleman and the finest chef we've ever had at Rowan!  (source)
    consummate = perfect (having a quality to an extreme degree)
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    On the other hand, it might make of him a consummate bore.  (source)
    consummate = having a quality to an extreme degree
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    The mayor was a careerist, a consummate professional, and he knew how the game should be run against an ethnic challenger:  (source)
    consummate = having a quality to an extreme degree
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    If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead—chair, has it never occurred to you that on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?†  (source)
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    Now we come for something of consummate importance and...  (source)
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    "NO!" cried the bishop, red in the face now, a consummately consistent apparition.†  (source)
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    Even Butler, the consummate professional, was beginning to dread the long nights of damp and insect bites.  (source)
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    The Sudanese made round nets and tossed them mightily over the water, where they landed with a hiss, but European fish were too cagey for this technique, although now and then a fish was caught purely by accident, and thrown almost whole into a consummately dilute fish-and-potato stew.†  (source)
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    Over the next few weeks, I became the consummate soldier,  (source)
    consummate = perfect and complete in every respect
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    The terrible sea, the frail boat, the storms, the suffering, the strangeness and isolation of the situation,—all that should have frightened a robust woman,—seemed to make no impression upon her who had known life only in its most sheltered and consummately artificial aspects, and who was herself all fire and dew and mist, sublimated spirit, all that was soft and tender and clinging in woman.†  (source)
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    It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to ... to do wrong for the wrong's sake only--that urged me to continue and finally to consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the unoffending brute.  (source)
    consummate = complete in every respect
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    The mask of an inane fop had been a good one, and the part consummately well played.†  (source)
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consummate as in:  consummate the deal

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I'm hoping to consummate the agreement Monday morning.
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They were too drunk to consummate a marriage and subsequently asked that it be annulled.
consummate = complete
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