How to Use textbook case/example in a Sentence

textbook case/example

noun
  • What followed, police experts say, was a textbook case on how not to deal with the public.
    Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Russia’s war in Ukraine offers a textbook case of this problem.
    Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2025
  • In fact, it was long cited as a textbook example of a relaxed cluster.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In retrospect, her death is a textbook case of colchicine poisoning.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The dodo, of the island of Mauritius, is a textbook example.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • As for Oscar, there’s no doubt that his conduct was a textbook case of workplace harassment.
    Anahid Nersessian, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Ian, overshadowed by his brother, seemed a textbook case.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But on balance, Springfield is a textbook case of how immigration can change a region’s luck for the better.
    Peter Certo, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Seems like a textbook example for when a team should force someone other than its opponent’s best weapon to beat them.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
  • His career path is a textbook case of succession planning.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The plight of the teacher Wolfe’s experience is a textbook example of how today’s educators are at the end of their rope and have been for some time.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The most recent breach, on Thursday, was almost a textbook example of the maneuver.
    David Axe, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The textbook example of incitement is someone in front of an angry mob telling them to attack a person.
    Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Related article The Maine gunman was a ‘textbook case’ for a state law designed to remove firearms from people like him.
    Emma Tucker, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Shuggie Bain is a textbook example of the sort of show that could be impacted by American money falling out the market.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called child care a textbook example of a broken market.
    Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream.
    Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 10 May 2024
  • The Disney Treasure, which departed on its maiden voyage Dec. 21, is in many ways a textbook example.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Kendall Jenner just delivered the textbook example of high-low dressing.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Apple now towers as a textbook case of a stock so richly valued that its future returns will likely prove extremely poor.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 July 2023
  • If such a thing as a devotional folkloric genre painting could exist, this might be its textbook example.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Medieval weaponry aside, this is a textbook example of modern conquest.
    Dan Altman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The textbook example is on the same campus: Dutcher and his staff routinely land impact players who value winning more than an NIL payday.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2023
  • In his presidential win six years later, Trump provided a textbook example of how to apply this.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Myanmar in the wake of a military coup is a textbook example: the United States sanctioned members of the regime, but Chinese largess and diplomatic support have helped the military weather the sanctions.
    Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2021
  • An American-Israeli takeover of Gaza is a textbook example of aggressive war and ethnic cleansing.
    Carine Harb, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • This nation of loyal Prime subscribers helped make Amazon, for many years a textbook case of an unprofitable tech company, into a juggernaut.
    Whizy Kim, Vox, 15 July 2024
  • The traditional Italian combination of nothing more than tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil, olive oil, salt and pepper is a textbook case of something that, when made well, can taste like so much more than the sum of its parts.
    Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
  • But based on the Trump administration’s track record, this new department is shaping up to be a textbook case of political double standards.
    Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • This was a textbook example of how an organization can become a conduit.
    Ziv Biron, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025

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