Example sentences for: textbook

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

  • Just the sight of Mastering Linux induced the stomach-churning sense of dread that my sixth-grade math textbook once gave me: "I don't get this.

  • The colors are muted and staid, the illustrations as innocuous, impeccable, and dispassionate as those you would find in an economics textbook.

  • In his single-minded focus on software, and his insistence that Microsoft create programs that could run on multiple platforms, Gates shaped a business that was almost a textbook example of how to achieve increasing returns on capital.

  • Clinton's speech was a textbook illustration of how to use a national trauma to reframe an issue.

  • If you want to stay within the realm of textbook definitions, a lager is a beer brewed a particular way--slowly, at cool temperatures, with yeast that settles on the bottom of the vat.


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