CONSUMMATE in a Sentence

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29 example sentences for CONSUMMATE, such as:

1. He won the race with consummate ease.
2. He acted the part with consummate skill.
3. Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
4. She dealt with the problem with consummate skill.
5. De Gaulle conducted his strategy with consummate skill.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSUMMATE
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consummate
 a.  carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Scarlett exercised the same charms as Melanie but with a studied artistry and consummate skill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  And on top of it all, he had the consummate gall to stand here in the road and insult her with his infamous proposals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  His savage barbarity was equalled only by the consummate coolness with which he committed the grossest and most savage deeds upon the slaves under his charge.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
5  Neither yours nor any man's death is needed to consummate the series of my being and accomplish that which must be done, but it requires my own.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  She would shoot with consummate velocity from the roof to the hall, yet would be in full possession of her breath and dignity on the moment of her arrival there.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
7  We were two children in the hands of that consummate soldier, Major: simply two innocent little children.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
8  Herself a consummate coquette, she could not have maneuvered better on meeting a man she wished to attract.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI
9  The combination of a certain adroitness with deep-seated earnestness, of tact with consummate ability, gave him his preeminence, and helps him maintain it.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
10  Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
11  I smile because there appears to me to be about as much inclination for the consummation of the engagement in question as there is for my own.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 54. A Flurry in Stocks.
12  After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  Felix was too delicate to accept this offer, yet he looked forward to the probability of the event as to the consummation of his happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
14  And when he came into her, with an intensification of relief and consummation that was pure peace to him, still she was waiting.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  There had been nonchalance in his tone, showing her that he felt no absolute grief at a consummation which to her was a positive horror.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
Example Sentence:
1  He acted the part with consummate skill.
2  He won the race with consummate ease.
3  With consummate skill, she steered the conversation away from any embarrassing subjects.
4  De Gaulle conducted his strategy with consummate skill.
5  She dealt with the problem with consummate skill.
6  The winner of multiple Grammy awards for both solo and chamber performances, Ax believes that the Variations format is the great composer's way of showing consummate artistry.