Sample Sentences forquintessential (auto-selected)
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He has behaved like the quintessential ugly Afghan-American, Idris thinks.† (source)
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In his autobiography, Morrow wrote that she was the "quintessential geek girl," unabashedly obsessed with Monty Python, comic books, fantasy novels, and videogames.† (source)
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The Original Commander Call is the quintessential duck "quack," and the mallard hen typically gives the call in a series of two to ten quacks that start loud and get softer as she goes (sounds a lot like a woman I know at home).† (source)
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But Mr. Fish was the quintessential neighbor; he was all neighbors—all dog owners, all the friendly faces from familiar backyards, all the hands on your shoulders at your mother's funeral.† (source)
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Along with picking handcuffs, vaulting Jersey barriers, and fending off perverts, it is one of the quintessential Kourier skills: walking around in a place where you don't belong without attracting suspicion.† (source)
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I soon learned that on Everest not even the rope-the quintessential climber's accoutrement was to be utilized in the time-honored manner.† (source)
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These stories were viewed as quintessential—as defining, in some way—and every family member, including Stem's three-year-old, had heard them told and retold and embroidered and conjectured upon any number of times.† (source)
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Harry turned a page of Quintessence, aware that Ron was watching him.† (source)
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He passed the exit for a town with the quintessentially Americansounding name of Gainesville.† (source)
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The languor of Youth—how unique and quintessential it is!† (source)
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He knew what would happen if he drank this spice drug with its quintessence of the substance that brought the change onto him.† (source)
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She's so quintessentially practical that most people would never guess she has a thing for angels.† (source)
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He was the quintessential back-country Yankee, grunting instead of talking, sullen-faced.† (source)
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It seemed the quintessence of the squareness he was fighting.† (source)
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They were quintessentially Southern, and she remembered seeing many of these rustic scenes on her journey through North Carolina.† (source)
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It's the quintessential Toronto middle-class-matron put-down, the ultimate disapproval.† (source)
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