quintessential

Example Sentences

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The Canadian actor said the comedy would give American audiences a taste of the quintessential British tradition and said it had also showed him what starring in a real-life panto would be like.

From BBC

Indeed, it is quintessential structured finance—the point of which is to help companies try to achieve seemingly irreconcilable financial-reporting goals.

From The Wall Street Journal

Prints, relatively inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute, were championed by some 18th-century intellectuals as the quintessential artistic medium of the Enlightenment.

From The Wall Street Journal

A convicted murderer in the state of Victoria has sued the prisons commissioner over his lack of access to the quintessentially Australian condiment.

From Barron's

When it comes to quintessential fall produce, apples and pumpkin take center stage like clockwork.

From Salon