quintessential
Example Sentences
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For months, activists have been demanding more support from city leadership, explained Elias Siegelman, an activist who works with No ICE Philly, which meets in the quintessentially Pennsylvanian location of a Quaker meeting house.
From Salon
Aladdin Sane, with his face strafed by a scarlet firebolt edged in blue, blue, electric blue, is quintessential Bowie iconography.
From Salon
The design could be modeled on the U-shaped Panathenaic Stadium in Athens—the quintessential example of pure classical architecture reconstructed in the second century and entirely clad in marble.
It has steadily built a following in the United States, earning a reputation as a quintessential quality French white alongside others from Burgundy.
From Barron's
Looking back at the TV producer behind one of the longest-running children's TV programmes in the world, and a quintessentially English photographer.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
