How to Use classic case in a Sentence

classic case

noun

• It was all supposed to be done for comedy’s sake; a classic case of the end, aka healthy ratings, justifying the means, no matter how twisted or hurtful.
  — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
• This is the classic case of when life gives you lemons, make your ex eat it.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 July 2023
• The reason for this abrupt change remains a mystery, a classic case of a bride being, well, a bride.
  — Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
• Then there’s the classic case of the franchise that won the opening game of this year’s playoffs on Saturday.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2023
• The classic case dates back to 1912 when William Howard Taft was seeking a second term as president.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 3 Mar. 2024
• Discovered at a Charteuse and Co. barn sale in Maryland, the kitchen’s 27-drawer workbench was a classic case right out of Goldilocks.
  — Shaila Wunderlich, Country Living, 21 Feb. 2023
• Home Alone’s depiction of the relationship between Kevin and his mom is the classic case.
  — Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• Or is this a classic case of buyer’s remorse revealing our naiveté?
  — Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2024
• This feels a lot like the classic case of pitting one set of correlations against another.
  — Michael B. Horn, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• That’s caused some investors to come down with a classic case of fear-of-missing-out, says Saira Malik, chief investment officer at Nuveen.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• Interior, Comfort, and Cargo The Tiguan's interior space is a classic case of give and take.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 21 Aug. 2023
• In 2021, freshman Bowman joined other members of The Squad to vote against the bipartisan infrastructure bill in a classic case of treating the perfect as the enemy of the very, very good.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
• There’s something there worth exploring — another classic case of a solid player falling through the cracks.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 11 May 2024
• The Covid employee retention tax credit is turning into a classic case of government waste and fraud.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
• In Kendall’s case, those endeavors have often seemed border-line delusional, the classic case of someone born on third base who’s convinced he’s hit a triple, in a way that’s alternately delicious and cringe-worthy.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
• The gap between those commitments and the United States’ actual military capabilities is a classic case of overstretch.
  — Graham Allison, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
• The classic case was late nineteenth-century Germany, which had a very strong rule of law, a lot of individual freedom, but no democratic accountability.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• Our country’s pharmaceutical pipeline for antimicrobials is a classic case of market failure in urgent need of government correction.
  — Howard Dean, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
• These minimum-wage compacts are a classic case of policy myopia — choosing popular sentiment over practical sustainability.
  — Patrick M. Brenner, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024