Sentence examples for nonpareil from high-quality English sources.

• Oh, that nonpareil dry sausage.

• I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home through 56 years of a marital partnership nonpareil.

• Writing of Benjamin Britten in 1976, the Times referred coyly to a “nonpareil recital relationship” between Britten and Peter Pears.

• He won the world middleweight title (under the Queensberry rules) by knocking out Nonpareil Jack Dempsey in 13 rounds in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 14, 1891.

• How did Prince come to make so many nonpareil recordings?

• The last two were directed by the energetic Jacques Tourneur, but even with lesser talents Lewton proved himself the nonpareil of atmosphere and zip.

• Jamesetta Hawkins had made her name on Chicago’s Chess label as a rhythm and blues shouter nonpareil, establishing her 1960 recording of “At Last” as her signature song.

• ‘Mokka-fix’ on Alexanderstrasse, nonpareil cigars, cultured beers in mugs and glasses, card games forbidden, guests are responsible for their own coats, I’m not taking the rap.

Use nonpareil in a sentence.

• What Xunzi meant by this is the canonical collection of Odes (Shi 詩), which all Confucians seem to have regarded as a nonpareil repository of edifying literature (Goldin 2005: 35).

• In 2007, I worked as an office temp for a private-equity firm whose offices were in the Seagram Building, the darkly luminous, nonpareil skyscraper on Park Avenue, completed in 1958.

• That’s the side that amplifies the jittery nods and frustrated winces and wide-eyed outcries—his eyebrows fleeing the lies his mouth is about to tell—that make him a straight man nonpareil.

• “The Shining” opened to negative reviews but good business; since then, an influential demographic of mesmerized fans has helped the film, over the years, be appreciated as a nonpareil horror show.

• But in “The Art of the Deal,” O’Brien told me, “Trump shrewdly and unabashedly promoted an image of himself as a dealmaker nonpareil who could always get the best out of every situation—and who can now deliver America from its malaise.”

• Once a sort of absent-minded professor of genius, so wrapped up in his studies that he let his own brother steal away the dukedom of Milan, he’s now a nonpareil magician, controlling the island’s elements and spirits and determined not to waver from his master plan for redemption.

• Certainly no one has ever been so right about so many things so much of the time as John Stuart Mill, the nineteenth-century English philosopher, politician, and know-it-all nonpareil who is the subject of a fine new biography by the British journalist Richard Reeves, “John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand” (Overlook; $40).

• A duplex penthouse at the pinnacle of One57, the vitreous skyscraper with nonpareil vistas of Central Park, the Hudson and East Rivers and almost every landmark on the horizon, sold for $100,471,452.77 to a mystery buyer, shattering the record for the highest price ever paid for a single residence in New York City, and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.

nonpareil sentence examples

• The jam-band nonpareil Phish takes over Madison Square Garden from Dec. 28 through New Year’s Eve. | The Punch Brothers, the alt-bluegrass supergroup led by the mandolinist Chris Thile, come to the Bowery Ballroom Dec. 29-31. | Gov’t Mule waves the flag for Southern rock at the Beacon Dec. 30-31. | Nas, the biggest New York City rapper who doesn’t (yet) own a basketball team, stretches out at Radio City Music Hall on the big night. | Amanda Palmer, the fan-funded madwoman of alternative rock, rings in the New Year at Terminal 5.