How to Use textbook case/example in a Sentence

textbook case/example

noun

• In retrospect, her death is a textbook case of colchicine poisoning.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
• Ian, overshadowed by his brother, seemed a textbook case.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Seems like a textbook example for when a team should force someone other than its opponent’s best weapon to beat them.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
• His career path is a textbook case of succession planning.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2023
• The plight of the teacher Wolfe’s experience is a textbook example of how today’s educators are at the end of their rope and have been for some time.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2023
• The textbook example of incitement is someone in front of an angry mob telling them to attack a person.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• Related article The Maine gunman was a ‘textbook case’ for a state law designed to remove firearms from people like him.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called child care a textbook example of a broken market.
  — Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream.
  — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 10 May 2024
• Apple now towers as a textbook case of a stock so richly valued that its future returns will likely prove extremely poor.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 July 2023
• If such a thing as a devotional folkloric genre painting could exist, this might be its textbook example.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• The textbook example is on the same campus: Dutcher and his staff routinely land impact players who value winning more than an NIL payday.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2023
• Myanmar in the wake of a military coup is a textbook example: the United States sanctioned members of the regime, but Chinese largess and diplomatic support have helped the military weather the sanctions.
  — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2021
• This nation of loyal Prime subscribers helped make Amazon, for many years a textbook case of an unprofitable tech company, into a juggernaut.
  — Whizy Kim, Vox, 15 July 2024
• The traditional Italian combination of nothing more than tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil, olive oil, salt and pepper is a textbook case of something that, when made well, can taste like so much more than the sum of its parts.
  — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
• Maddie, whose literary hopes were discouraged by her conservative milieu, is both a textbook case of the problem with no name and the epitome of an ambition monster.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
• And Hawaii's situation is a textbook case, two scientists told The Associated Press.
  — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2023
• And Hawaii’s situation is a textbook case, two scientists told The Associated Press.
  — Claire Rush, Seth Borenstein, and Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2023
• On paper, the third start looked a little different, as Jameson allowed five runs in 2 2/3 innings on Monday, but Carlson saw that outing as a textbook example of spring stats not aligning with performances.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
• This recipe is a textbook example of how a few humble ingredients can create big, comforting, complex flavors.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2023
• Subscribe But the biggest reason that diabetes has become a hot-button political issue is that the cost of insulin provides a textbook case study of everything that is wrong with the American health care system.
  — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2023
• By the time that the two titular stars team up and get involved in a zero-gravity battle royale that’s a textbook example of sound and fury signifying near-indecipherable noise and chaos, you’re left wondering why so little of this seems to land.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
• MoviePass’ demise was one of the entertainment industry’s most spectacular flame-outs ever — a textbook example of how a promising idea in theory can turn disastrous.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• The fabric has been fashioned into everything from pants to capes, but its most iconic expression remains the loden coat with Schneiders’s Hubertus model serving as a textbook example.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2023
• Tuesday’s race—an individual start competition, in which skiers go out on their own, at thirty-second intervals—was a textbook example.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• What resulted was, in some ways, a textbook example of how vast outlays of capital can actually constrain innovation.
  — Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• But when the Department announced a criminal investigation into the parody later that night, Anthony deleted it—a textbook example of the chilling effect at work.
  — Nick Sibilla, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• And among white Americans, the positive correlation between a state’s average score on the Christian nationalism scale and the proportion of residents who cast votes for Trump in 2020 is a textbook example of a strong linear relationship.
  — Robert P. Jones, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
• What follows is maybe the single funniest drug-trip sequence ever filmed, and — for reasons that are best left ambiguous — a textbook example of this movie’s exceedingly careful relationship with absurdity.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
• The globalized, industrialized banana exists as a textbook example of monoculture under mounting threat from blight.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024