Example sentences for: quintessential

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

  • The LAT quotes Jim Kennedy of the White House counsel's office saying almost the exact same thing, although Kennedy added the quintessential spontaneity-hating Washington complaint: the no-notice release was unfair.

  • A wall panel explains that a film of milk covers the top of the marble, so that a "living substance" (milk) has been "stilled," thus "embodying the quintessential definition of the still life."

  • Of course, Dred Scott , which ruled that blacks, whether slave or free, couldn't be citizens, came to be condemned not just as racist but as a quintessential example of tortured reasoning in the service of a judge's personal prejudice--precisely the kind of jurisprudence that originalism's advocates claim it alone can avoid.

  • "I do think it's the quintessential tale of good and evil, a deeply moral tale.

  • Hauffe is the quintessential depiction of the Nazi as Frankenstein, with the bolts sticking out of his helmet--but then what isn't mystifying about that regime's allure?


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