How to Use textbook in a Sentence

textbook

noun

• Testers loved the chic style and look, with one raving about the textbook fuzzy feel.
  — Grace Wu, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
• Even LinkedIn has echoed that the hottest skills to land a job right now can’t be learned in a textbook.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
• All the beats of both major monster fights were textbook.
  — Kyle Orland & Andrew Cunnigham, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2023
• The ones assuming the mantle from him have lit that textbook on fire.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
• That was textbook work by the corner, who bodied Parker and just took the ball away from him.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• Some expressed anger and dismay about the new textbook.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• The give-and-go with Weigel was a thing of beauty, a textbook dissection of the defense by longtime teammates.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• On the left are the differential equations that model the flight of the lunar lander in their textbook form.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2023
• At the time, their son was 7 and already carrying half a dozen thick textbooks in his backpack.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• The narrative of the United States of America that I was taught in textbooks is not real.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• The new textbook contains only one such section — on the legacy of Stalin.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• Now that Liam has been praised for the find, Ms. Porter said her students have been searching through all of their textbooks looking for errors.
  — Amanda Holpuch, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• The show’s establishing beats are its most stale, which makes sense given the textbook coming-of-age premise.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2023
• But there are a couple of things about Teti’s lifestyle that belong in any textbook on aging well.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• The country tunes in for the titanic point totals, not textbook tackles.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
• Dobic shared a short video of Z's new nails, which are the textbook definition of simple chic.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 24 Mar. 2023
• But some of the other textbooks could have been tossed together by Little Sloppy and his cronies.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Recently, a young law student on a train asked Preston to sign her textbook.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• Replays revealed the play to be a textbook situation in which Arias was outwitted, missed the ball, and caught Gil.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• The stunning scenery and quaint village atmosphere are textbook Bavaria.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
• The state is expected to announce its textbook decisions in the coming weeks.
  — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• This backpack boasts a playful pattern and is set up with a heavyweight canvas base for all those textbooks.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• There’s something about a winter getaway to a mountain town filled with all the textbook cozy, cold-weather stuff that just screams romance.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2023
• If that’s true, economists need to rewrite their textbooks.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• That led me to buy textbooks about beer, this really technical stuff.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023
• The first deep ball was textbook, stepping up in the pocket and delivered in the breadbasket just as pressure arrived.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• Forward Jordyn Huitema uncorked a textbook header off a cross from Ashley Lawrence that knotted things in the 82nd minute.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
• The textbook definition of an emergency fund is at least three and up to 12 months of your expenses.
  — Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 18 Nov. 2022
• For decades, Texas was the main publisher of textbooks for schools across the nation due to its large student population.
  — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• My father was a textbook agoraphobic who shut himself off from the world and at the end was leaving his house only once or twice a year.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024