Example sentences for: top-drawer

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

  • Vladimir Nabokov's taxonomies of Latin American butterflies, long disparaged as armchair entomology, turn out to be top-drawer science, according to a recent article in the New York Times . In the 1940s, the émigré novelist held a part-time job at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and published the first attempted classification of an obscure group of blue butterflies known as Polyommatini . For years, Nabokov's study attracted more attention from literary critics than from scientists.

  • Most top-drawer political reporters decided to sit this debate out.

  • As you stroll past the shops selling expensive top-drawer merchandise, you’re likely to pass a number of impeccably dressed older women carrying impeccably coiffed toy poodles.


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