Examples of textbook in a Sentence

Noun one shelf in my bookcase is crammed full of my old college textbooks Adjective a textbook example of a film that captures the feel of the novel on which it is based

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Bruening was once the textbook example of an Instagram user. — Clare Duffy And Jennifer Korn, CNN, 26 July 2022 In that context, a textbook romantic drama like The Last Letter From Your Lover would appear to be an outlier, a more conventional project. — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 5 Aug. 2021 But critics, especially President Trump and his political allies, continue to excoriate him for supporting textbook public health measures like wearing face coverings and building immunity with vaccines. — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2021 Highways are not public goods under the textbook economic definition. — Dominic Pino, National Review, 13 June 2021 For any rock band that tries to change with the times, this is the textbook example of how not to do it. — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 20 July 2022 The city offers a textbook example of the intensifying investment. — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022 Even the last two years will be a good textbook example. — Jim Osman, Forbes, 10 June 2022 While Saban’s first season at Alabama was eventually marred by UA’s textbook scandal (and an official record of 2-6), Tide fans shouldn’t forget this one anytime soon. — al, 7 July 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Guyton, the second Black woman to host A Capitol Fourth after Vanessa Williams, recognizes that her own swift and dramatic rise to stardom after years of dues-paying and nearly quitting performing entirely is a textbook American success story. — Scott Huver, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2022 At the same time, solutions borrowed from textbook European nation-states are unlikely to serve us well. — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 22 Sep. 2021 The vegan ramen was originally developed for Afuri’s Portland, Ore., location with the goal of being a lighter, decidedly non-textbook option. — Flora Tsapovsky, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2021 When she was discovered, her gender identity was conflated with her identity as a criminal, which is totally textbook. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 27 Aug. 2021 Having a bunch of Boomers in a closed environment for long periods of time isn’t exactly textbook social distancing. — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2020 See More

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