textbook
Example Sentences
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"He's not your textbook fighter that has come through an amateur system, where he has to put together the basics," he says.
From BBC
From the moment she could pick up a pen, she was doodling over everything possible - from school textbooks to spare scraps of paper.
From BBC
For almost twenty years, textbooks described CENP-E as a motor that pulled chromosomes to the metaphase plate.
From Science Daily
He goes to pull his textbook out of his backpack but looks back up at me.
From Literature
Born and raised in China, she taught herself English when she was young to read the field’s advanced textbooks.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.