creme de la creme
Example Sentences
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Bergdorf Goodman is considered the crème de la crème of department stores.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 21, 2025
"We will take everyone through town to the Northern Meeting Park where the ceilidh begins with the crème de la crème of Scotland's traditional music scene."
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2023
We played with so many different elements, but what finally opened on Broadway was just the crème de la crème of all the things we had worked on for “Aladdin.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2023
Toptal likes to brag that it hires only the crème de la crème of tech talent.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2022
"This is the high-class motel, la crème de la crème, not to get too gross. Everyone would know everyone else's cars here."
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
