Sample Sentences for
Sherlock Holmes
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    Delinko is no Sherlock Holmes, thought the police captain, but he's got a point.  (source)
    Sherlock Holmes = famous detective in make believe stories
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    Why is he acting all Sherlock Holmes on me?  (source)
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    I detected no Sherlock Holmes among them, nor even a Dr. Watson.†  (source)
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    My teacher took out a book, The Collected Cases of Sherlock Holmes.†  (source)
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    I've seen Sherlock Holmes a hundred times.†  (source)
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    Feeling just about as smart as Sherlock Holmes, I headed for the store.†  (source)
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    "You want to play Sherlock Holmes?" asked Horace.†  (source)
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    In high school I read some Sherlock Holmes and laughed to see that this was the same battle where Dr. Watson was wounded before becoming partner to the great detective.†  (source)
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    There were Snow White and some of the seven dwarfs, Mary Poppins and Sherlock Holmes, Peter Pan and Pippi Longstocking, Little Red Ridinghood and Cinderella.†  (source)
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    There was even a rumour that some classic books—like the Sherlock Holmes ones—weren't in our library because the main characters smoked too much, and when you came across a page torn out of an illustrated book or magazine, this was because there'd been a picture on it of someone smoking.†  (source)
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    She continued to read to him almost every evening, just as she had been doing from the time he had come to live with her, stories of adventure and suspense like Sherlock Holmes and Tom Sawyer, as well as poetry—Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and many others.†  (source)
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    It looked like Sherlock Holmes's pipe, curved and drooping from her lips.†  (source)
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    You didn't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that.†  (source)
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