How to Use exemplar in a Sentence

exemplar

noun
  • He is an exemplar of this new breed of politician.
  • With that handy exemplar in hand, shift your mindset to the future.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Oxy was an exemplar of this, but the Anadarko deal has changed the equation.
    — Liam Denning | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Kelley assumes Göring will come off as an exemplar of evil.
    — B.b. Blaber, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Heron, which opened last year, is the exemplar of Leith’s new fine dining scene.
    — Kate Maxwell, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This will serve as a handy use case or exemplar for ample discussion on the topic.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • This will serve as a handy use case or exemplar for ample discussion on the topic.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 July 2022
  • The honey mushroom is also an exemplar of the extreme forms that life can take.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Trump may also seek to use Poland as an exemplar of partnership.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2017
  • Trump may also seek to use Poland as an exemplar of partnership.
    — Vivian Salama and Ken Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2017
  • In fact, the McGill video owes its existence in part to an exemplar of the genre.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • Paschall is perhaps the greatest exemplar of how charmed this night seemed for Nova.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2018
  • And, for all its faults, the 4/4 remains the glorious exemplar of the brand.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 30 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Looking Ahead Don’t call it a diner or an exemplar of comfort food.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • As far as exemplars go, those inclined to offer wardrobe support could find a better follow and a better way.
    — Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • As striking was his failure even to mention some of the world’s leading exemplars of socialism.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 June 2019
  • This car isn’t just a state-of-the-art automobile, but a true exemplar of performance and design.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Even so, Bamford might be an exemplar of Minnesota nice.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The detective, once the exemplar of reason, drifts here into a fog of unknowing.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • SpaceX, founded in 2002, is the exemplar of this new space movement.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Out of all of them, the grave of the wife of a military officer stood out as a spectacular exemplar for its wealth of goods.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 12 Jan. 2026
  • If South Uist is the exemplar of machair, North Uist is surely not far behind.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • 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

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