Sample sentences for QUINTESSENTIAL

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representing the perfect example of a class or quality

They were quintessentially Southern, and she remembered seeing many of these rustic scenes on her journey through North Carolina.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven

When he became head of the National Party, he seemed to be the quintessential party man, nothing more and nothing less.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
It's the quintessential Toronto middle-class-matron put-down, the ultimate disapproval.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
He's the quintessential capitalist.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
He knew what would happen if he drank this spice drug with its quintessence of the substance that brought the change onto him.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
It seemed the quintessence of the squareness he was fighting.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
She photographed the quintessentially heterosexual couple's eunuch dog, too.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
Harry did not answer, but pretended to be absorbed in the book they were supposed to have read before Charms next morning (Quintessence: A Q uest).
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
* She is formed of the pure quintessence of the western air.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
He was the quintessential back-country Yankee, grunting instead of talking, sullen-faced.
Stephen King -- Cujo
There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
He has behaved like the quintessential ugly Afghan-American, Idris thinks.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
I soon learned that on Everest not even the rope-the quintessential climber's accoutrementwas to be utilized in the time-honored manner.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
Ted was also the quintessential outdoorsman.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
She's so quintessentially practical that most people would never guess she has a thing for angels.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
They are also the quintessential supporters of the Taliban.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
Marching naked in formation with a group of naked women was for Tereza the quintessential image of horror.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It was the quintessence of every melodic cliche Reich had ever heard.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
Yet he was a quintessential gentleman, courtly in the finest sense, with a troubled, endangered civility rooted in the bruised mythology of the Old South.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline

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