quintessential

Example Sentences

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It has steadily built a following in the United States, earning a reputation as a quintessential quality French white alongside others from Burgundy.

From Barron's

Looking back at the TV producer behind one of the longest-running children's TV programmes in the world, and a quintessentially English photographer.

From BBC

I don’t consider Klee—sui generis—to be a Surrealist, but “Fish Magic,” merging aquarium, children’s art, still life, cosmos and landscape, is the quintessential portrait of a dream.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the look came to be understood as quintessentially British style.

From BBC

Instead, they have produced a quintessentially American phenomenon: a roaring engine of upward mobility.

From The Wall Street Journal