Example Sentences

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These are not the complex epitomes that show the extent of a wine’s potential.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2020

To present its hippest neighborhoods as epitomes of a cosmopolitanism that hasn’t turned its back on tradition.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2017

I think that is especially apropos for this epoch in our country and I hope everyone votes for whom they think epitomes that sentiment--regardless of political party of affiliation.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2016

Sometimes the very men who became epitomes of chivalric virtue turned away from its presumptions in disgust.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2011

As in the case of the Mishnah, so, also, the Talmud has six principal divisions: these will be followed in the subsequent epitomes and need not, therefore, be given here.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir