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Example sentences for "excellent example"

  • The steps he set forth form an excellent example of a method of thinking now common, but then almost unknown.

  • Show that the thinking of Copernicus as to the motions of the heavenly bodies was an excellent example of deductive thinking.

  • The teaching of the period is an excellent example of this influence.

  • Although abandoned for so many years Camber is an excellent example of the kind of blockhouse which was erected by Henry VIII, retaining most of the features unaltered by rebuilding.

  • Saltwood castle furnishes an excellent example of this.

  • The relation of the Tower to the City of London affords an excellent example of this arrangement.

  • And this picture is an excellent example.

  • Since then he has adopted a different and better method of painting; and an excellent example of his present style is his portrait of Miss Spencer, a lady in a mauve gown.

  • Mr. Waterhouse's picture of "Circe Poisoning the Sea" is an excellent example of professional French painting.

  • The little Republic of Switzerland offers us an excellent example in all matters connected with building up an efficient citizen soldiery.

  • The Biological Survey is quietly working for the good of our agricultural interests, and is an excellent example of a Government bureau which conducts original scientific research the findings of which are of much practical utility.

  • An excellent example is that of Henry Parice in Hildersham Church, Cambridgeshire, 1465 (Fig.

  • This pièce de renfort may be viewed as the prototype of the “grande garde” of the succeeding century: an excellent example is preserved in the collection of Lord Zouche at Parham.

  • The project of reuniting Belgium and Holland affords an excellent example of a scheme plausible enough on paper, but which could not resist the test of reality.

  • It is an excellent example of an inherited defect due to a single Mendelian factor.

  • The white man, on the other hand, has his own diseases, of which tuberculosis is an excellent example.

  • An excellent example is the cave at Altamira in northern Spain.

  • Since the Taconic Range affords us such an excellent example of a large-scale, well-understood folded range of great antiquity we may do well to consider it in the light of certain other broad relationships.

  • The long chain of Aleutian Islands of Alaska, referred to in our study of volcanoes, is an excellent example of a great mountain range now being built up out of the sea by volcanic action.

  • An excellent example of this is the laminitis occurring in the Shire stallion when commencing his rounds of service in the spring and early summer.

  • We have, in fact, just given an excellent example of the formation of a seedy-toe in the sections of this chapter devoted to laminitis (see pp.

  • In fact the arms, crest, and motto of Barnard together form such an excellent example of the little jokes which characterise heraldry that I quote the blazon in full.

  • Dauphin de Viennois in 1349, is an excellent example of the fashion.

  • Each can be charged, and each furnishes an excellent example of the futility of some of the ancient rules which have been coined concerning them.

  • An excellent example of the hazy, drowsy effect in which Cuyp excelled.

  • An excellent example of Ruysdael's sea-pieces, in which he was not surpassed by any painter of the time.

  • An excellent example of the painter's third or naturalistic manner.

  • Two miles from Rhuddlan, off the road; excellent example of modern architecture.

  • It is an excellent example of an old Welsh town, retaining a great deal of its primeval quaintness.

  • In the window-sill of the south window of this chapel is inserted a long granite stone, with an Ogham inscription upon it, together with a slab bearing an excellent example of an early interlaced cross.

  • An excellent example of an elevating rest for a weighted lathe is shown in Figs.

  • An excellent example of special chuck is shown in Fig.

  • An excellent example of bolt and plate chucking is given in a heavy ring of, say, three feet diameter, and 5 or 6 inches cross section, requiring to be turned quite true, and of equal thickness all over.

  • Gatehouse forms an excellent example of castellation of that period.

  • The magnificent Castle of Alnwick is an excellent example of a Shell Keep fortress; it stands upon elevated ground on the south bank of the Aln river and about 5 miles from the sea.

  • It is an excellent example of masonry superseding earthwork defences without obliterating their original lines.

  • It is an excellent example of drawing for process, showing much ingenuity of line.

  • An excellent example of sketching in line.

  • This is an excellent example of drawing--and of treatment of textures and surfaces--for process reproduction.

  • An excellent example of this is to be noted in Dr.

  • His argument in the matter is an excellent example of Jesuitism.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excellent example" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black sheep; both because; excellent character; excellent dinner; excellent domestic and international; excellent example; excellent fellow; excellent good; excellent health; excellent master; excellent opportunity; excellent preservation; excellent road; excellent spirits; excellent supper; excellent vows; excellent water; excellent work; inverted position; known species; large canoe; more effectual; recall something; twelve thousand; when they came out; year since