Sherlock Holmes
Example Sentences
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He visited the Sherlock Holmes Museum in London ahead of shooting.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
His tales of Sherlock Holmes didn’t always present enough clues for readers—who could hardly be expected to compete with the brilliant detective—to deduce the solution on their own.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
“Like a Sherlock Holmes sleuth,” he said, “you’ve got to crack it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
When faced with a particularly puzzling case and not much evidence to go on, Sherlock Holmes once said, “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
This was what Sherlock Holmes stories left out—the tedium of real detective work, the false leads and the dead ends.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
