Words similar to sherlock

Example sentences for: sherlock

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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.
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 would like to thank Richard Trudeau, Sherlock Holmes, and Attila the Hun for helpful comments on an earlier draft.
They both lead with the exact same anecdote, taken from the same Sherlock Holmes story.
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.