Example sentences for: best-known

How can you use “best-known” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The debate over evolution is probably the best-known example of the literalists' combination of rock hard belief and relentless point by point challenge of the rationalist side.

  • He wrote one of his own best-known papers on increasing returns in 1978--a year before Arthur, by his own account, even began to think about the subject.

  • An interesting consequence of this aboriginal foundness for nicknaming is that several of the oldest and best-known Indian team names can trace their deepest roots--and in some cases their actual origins--to the exploits and linguistic customs of Native Americans themselves.

  • In their best-known operation, Delta troops assisted in the failed attempt to free American hostages from Iran in 1980.

  • Useful though that is, the best-known genuine collocations dictionary for English--probably, however, only until the publication of the seriously delayed Words in Use compilation from the Cobuild stable--is undoubtedly the BBI Combinatory Dictionary , by M. Benson, E. Benson, and R. Ilson (Benjamin, 1986).


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