Words similar to sherlock

Example sentences for: sherlock

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

Sherlock Holmes, of course, is the father of the British detectives, and when he began to appear on PBS in the '80s, we watched him regularly.
I had, I now believe, been reading an English novel, or perhaps a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and so the words just popped out of my subconscious.
I would like to thank Richard Trudeau, Sherlock Holmes, and Attila the Hun for helpful comments on an earlier draft.
Loose ends: (a) While we're on the subject, or at least next door to it—or at any rate, before we leave its vicinity—let this be said for the record: Nowhere in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle does arch-sleuth Sherlock Holmes ever actually say, Elementary, my dear Watson.
They both lead with the exact same anecdote, taken from the same Sherlock Holmes story.