CLASSIC in a Sentence
Learn CLASSIC from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
58 example sentences for CLASSIC, such as:
1. This case deserves to be a classic.
2. Wellington is classic war taking its revenge.
3. He was a liberal, a classic, and a Bonapartist.
4. I have a blind spot where classic music is concerned.
5. This is a classic example of a badly designed building.
2. Wellington is classic war taking its revenge.
3. He was a liberal, a classic, and a Bonapartist.
4. I have a blind spot where classic music is concerned.
5. This is a classic example of a badly designed building.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CLASSIC
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classic
a. of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture
a. of recognized authority or excellence
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 Wellington is classic war taking its revenge.
2 He was a liberal, a classic, and a Bonapartist.
3 His tendency, and we say it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic taste.
4 When he emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence.
5 She reveled in the Art Institute, in symphonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in the theater and classic dancing.
6 Guy Pollock answered with disconcerting readiness, "I'll tell you: since we're going to try to do something artistic, and not simply fool around, I believe we ought to give something classic."
7 His fine face, classic as that of a Greek statue, seemed actually to burn with the fervor of his feelings.
8 Should there be a classic period to art hereafter, its Pheidias may produce such faces.
9 This case deserves to be a classic.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
10 The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
11 It must be confessed that the artist sometimes got possession of the woman, and indulged in antique coiffures, statuesque attitudes, and classic draperies.
12 The thing was as impossible as to mould my irregular features to his correct and classic pattern, to give to my changeable green eyes the sea-blue tint and solemn lustre of his own.
13 Anatole was sitting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar and his head slightly bent.
14 He certainly did add 'spirit' to the meetings, and 'a tone' to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental.
15 If I only had a classical nose and mouth I should be perfectly happy, she said, surveying herself with a critical eye and a candle in each hand.
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1 His face was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.
2 The Organization Man survives as a modern classic because it captures a permanent part of our social condition.
3 It's a classic case of survival of the fittest and the fight for space between man and beast.
4 In the classic game of charades, students mime action verbs while the others watch.
5 Mark Wallace is a fully qualified Shipwright specializing in complete restorations of classic wooden boats.
6 On the contrary I think your speculation is a classic example of bending the evidence to support a religious belief.
7 This church is a classic example of medieval architecture.
8 He was young -- perhaps from twenty- eight to thirty -- tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.
9 Unnoticed by the critics at its publication, the eventual Pulitzer Prize winner was a classic sleeper.
10 Too many job hunters make the classic mistake of thinking only about what's in it for them.
11 The cut in benefits for the unemployed is a classic case of blaming the victim.
12 The debate in the mainstream press has been a classic example of British hypocrisy.
13 This is a classic example of a badly designed building.
14 I have a blind spot where classic music is concerned.
15 The story tells of a classic conflict between love and duty.