QUINTESSENTIAL in a Sentence

Learn QUINTESSENTIAL 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.

For QUINTESSENTIAL, below is one of 3 sentences:
A book on the face of it so quintessentially British - about a British colonel and his conception of duty and honour.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of QUINTESSENTIAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
quintessential
 a.  having properties of being the most perfect example of its type or the most perfect embodiment of something
Classic Sentence:
Example Sentence:
1  He was the quintessential tough guy.
2  Everybody thinks of him as the quintessential New Yorker.
3  A book on the face of it so quintessentially British - about a British colonel and his conception of duty and honour.