Example sentences for: topping

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

  • Topping the list is Bernard Schwartz, CEO of the defense contractor Loral, who gave a total of $661,000 to both parties.

  • In one skit, O.J. and a friend are watching football on TV and Walter Payton is close to topping O.J.'s rushing record.

  • The Albright mission to the Middle East continues to get big play, leading at the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times , and topping the Wall Street Journal worldwide news-digest box.

  • "Winning a Pulitzer Prize for a graphic novel is easy when you've written the only graphic novel Seymour Topping [head of the Pulitzer board] probably ever opened," not to mention that because it was a special citation (and not in the cartooning category), he had no direct competition.

  • "Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...


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