How to Use exemplar in a Sentence

exemplar

noun
  • He is an exemplar of this new breed of politician.
  • Oxy was an exemplar of this, but the Anadarko deal has changed the equation.
    Liam Denning | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
  • In fact, the McGill video owes its existence in part to an exemplar of the genre.
    Brian Barrett, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • And, for all its faults, the 4/4 remains the glorious exemplar of the brand.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 30 June 2017
  • With that handy exemplar in hand, shift your mindset to the future.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
  • SpaceX, founded in 2002, is the exemplar of this new space movement.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2022
  • And the 9/11 Commission was hardly an exemplar of the form.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2021
  • If South Uist is the exemplar of machair, North Uist is surely not far behind.
    Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Heron, which opened last year, is the exemplar of Leith’s new fine dining scene.
    Kate Maxwell, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The big platforms all have a document like this one, and Facebook’s is an exemplar of the genre.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • But on paper Labrie was an exemplar of the place, a throwback to the old boarding school ethic of sound mind and sound body.
    Eric Konigsberg, Town & Country, 5 Nov. 2015
  • Thus, the man known in the West as the Pope who brought down Communism is also an exemplar for Kirill and his project.
    Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The honey mushroom is also an exemplar of the extreme forms that life can take.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Paschall is perhaps the greatest exemplar of how charmed this night seemed for Nova.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The work’s palette of browns, ochers, white and light blue is an exemplar of Taylor’s odd, frugal color.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Dog breeding began in order to segregate what were seen as the best exemplars of the species from the canid hoi polloi.
    Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • This will serve as a handy use case or exemplar for ample discussion on the topic.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 July 2022
  • What’s more, Thurston conjectured, shapes that don’t have such an exemplar can be carved up into chunks that do.
    Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2012
  • Looking Ahead Don’t call it a diner or an exemplar of comfort food.
    Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • The United States has become the exemplar of far-right extremism.
    Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The further matter is that at this juncture, the nation, the world is running out of exemplars, places where anyone can pursue the dream.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Trump may also seek to use Poland as an exemplar of partnership.
    Washington Post, 6 July 2017
  • Colton Sissons could easily be mistaken for a white-shoe law firm, rather than the exemplar of a leaguewide trend.
    Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • For African health care systems trying to set up milk banks, there’s one country that stands out as a global exemplar – Brazil.
    Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
  • Business practices aside, there's no reason not to like the Warriors and their freewheeling, share-the-ball style, of which Steph Curry is the exemplar.
    Dan McGrath, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2017
  • Swift’s ’fit is a note-perfect exemplar of a look Keaton perfected in the 1970s and has maintained throughout every decade since.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Neither school was the exemplar of great crowd control, and this was a dustup that could have tested it severely.
    Bud Withers, oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The first answer comes in the form of Braque’s Violin and Palette (1909), a famous exemplar of early Cubism.
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • For my race and an exemplar of what is possible in America.
    Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2020
  • All three Latinos who spoke propped themselves up, Vance-like, as exemplars of their community and thus worth paying attention to.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024

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