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 retrospect, her death is a textbook case of colchicine poisoning.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
• In fact, it was long cited as a textbook example of a relaxed cluster.
  — Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Medieval weaponry aside, this is a textbook example of modern conquest.
  — Dan Altman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Germany, which shut all its nuclear power stations, is a textbook example.
  — Javier Blas/bloomberg Opinion, Boston Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
• This was a textbook example of how an organization can become a conduit.
  — Ziv Biron, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
• Kendall Jenner just delivered the textbook example of high-low dressing.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
• The most recent breach, on Thursday, was almost a textbook example of the maneuver.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called child care a textbook example of a broken market.
  — Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• While tariffs are a legitimate concern for many companies, this kind of sharp drop is a textbook example of a knee-jerk reaction — and the market is full of them.
  — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 20 June 2025
• 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
• Inter’s first goal away at Bayern was a textbook example — and the telepathic understanding between the two strikers was pivotal.
  — Mark Carey, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
• Maddie, whose literary hopes were discouraged by her conservative milieu, is both a textbook case of the problem with no name and the epitome of an ambition monster.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
• 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
• An American-Israeli takeover of Gaza is a textbook example of aggressive war and ethnic cleansing.
  — Carine Harb, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
• The fleecing of Kevin, who ProPublica agreed to identify by first name only, was a textbook example of pig butchering.
  — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 26 June 2025
• 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 quiet rise of K18—a premium haircare brand with a scientific soul—offers a textbook case of what modern consumers want, and what luxury brands must now deliver.
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
• 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
• And Hawaii's situation is a textbook case, two scientists told The Associated Press.
  — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2023
• And Hawaii’s situation is a textbook case, two scientists told The Associated Press.
  — Claire Rush, Seth Borenstein, and Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2023