quintessentially
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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
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.
She quickly becomes a household word, a symbol of something quintessentially American.
A convicted murderer in the state of Victoria has sued the prisons commissioner over his lack of access to the quintessentially Australian condiment.
From Barron's
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