consummate
Example Sentences
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The captains of such ships were the rock stars of their day, consummate seamen who risked their lives on the open oceans for wealth and fame.
Would this consummate journeyman ever have imagined that she’d be starring in feature films and a Broadway play in her 90s?
From Los Angeles Times
Fred Allen, the consummate radio comedian, called television a “medium,” to which he added that nothing about it is “well-done.”
Often called the consummate “self-made man,” Franklin wrote his autobiography in four parts over 19 years.
Odysseus is the flawed hero, a consummate liar and a less-than-stellar leader who cannot safeguard the “homecomings of his companions.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
