Example sentences for: characteristically

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

  • What they say and write I have found to be characteristically stimulating and rewarding, not plagued by the turgidity that so often seems to be the norm in scholarly papers.

  • Some of the papers feature an AOL exec's email in which he claims, "Gates delivered a characteristically blunt query: 'How much do we need to pay you to screw Netscape?

  • The preface begins with this characteristically Shavian sentence: “This book by Professor Wilson is one in which I should like everyone to be examined before certified as educated or eligible for the franchise or for any scientific, religious, legal, or civil employment.”

  • Note the characteristically airtight yet elliptical prose, the world-weary delicacy that records "the difference between a rule and a moral point" but commits neither to one nor the other.

  • Characteristically, the WSJ and the NYT include coverage of an easily overlooked aspect of the world's tensest nuclear crisis since the end of the Cold War--its impact on the Bombay, New Delhi, and Madras stock markets.


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