Example sentences for: exemplary

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

  • Such a life has very little to offer other women in the way of exemplary lessons, and we're right to feel a bit queasy over a first lady who promises (or threatens) to accomplish anything very substantive on the strength of who she's sleeping with.

  • His life is exemplary in the modern sense, not as a picture of virtue, or even as a struggle to live out some kind of personal truth, but rather as a question: How complicated can we allow people to be before we stop trusting them?

  • The scholarship that has gone into this book is exemplary, and the book will appeal to the general reader as much as to the lexicographer.

  • Take this exemplary passage from a Vanity Fair piece: "Sometimes you have to separate yourself from the trial and go back to real life.

  • The scene I've just described is an exemplary Tom Stoppard moment: A literary in-joke that turns on the accidental, and wholly conjectural, collision of two historical figures.


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