Example Sentences

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Though this film is preeminently Schindler’s story, we don’t meet him right away.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2018

Peace and stability will depend on incorporating into that order other nations with their own claims to indispensability, preeminently China.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2018

Yet he was preeminently a jazz musician; and it was the notes, not the instrument, that counted — his harmonica, he liked to say, “could be a broomstick or a tuba.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2016

“The presidency,” said Franklin Roosevelt, “is not merely an administrative office. That is the least of it. It is, preeminently, a place of moral leadership.”

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

I and my year—not “my generation” for destiny now cut too finely for that old phrase—I and those of my year were preeminently eligible for that.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles