Sentence examples for best extant from inspiring English sources

By Rebecca Mead Millard Kaufman, a début novelist whose book "Bowl of Cherries" comes out this month, has been described by his publisher, McSweeney's, as quite possibly "the best extant epic-comedic writer of his generation".

But his droll monologue about trying to play folk songs for his wife's modern-dance troupe is hilarious, "Grand Coulee Dam" bounds with energy, and a dramatic "Tom Joad" is the best extant recording of his greatest song.

Millard Kaufman, a début novelist whose book "Bowl of Cherries" comes out this month, has been described by his publisher, McSweeney's, as quite possibly "the best extant epic-comedic writer of his generation".

The volume later received high praise from J.S. Mill, who thought it "the best extant writing on the subject" (1963 91, II, 923).

His archive is by far the best extant record of these buildings.

The toothcomb, a special morphological arrangement of teeth in the anterior lower jaw, is best known in extant strepsirrhine primates, which include lemurs and lorisoid primates (collectively known as lemuriforms).

The Democratic primary race is about delegates, not momentum -- this has been a mantra on CNN, for instance, for many months -- which, now that the delegate race is effectively over, permits voters to vote for the candidate whose values they share rather than the candidate they believe has the best chance (all extant polling notwithstanding) to beat Donald Trump.

During his stay in Hungary (1004), Bruno wrote the best of the three extant biographies of Adalbert.

His only appearance at Covent Garden, this is one of the best of his several extant versions of a role, which no one else has ever sung so beautifully or characterised with such passionate subtlety.

Of the great 12th-century church, 125 yards (115 metres) long, the chancel and transept walls still stand to full height and exhibit some of the best English Gothic architecture extant.

Decades later, during a chance meeting, Mike Esposito, lead guitarist of the seminally psychedelic Blues Magoos, told me that he'd discovered, while on tour with The Who in 1967, that Pete Townshend was actually, in his opinion, the best British blues player extant.