Sentence examples for said a classic from inspiring English sources

It was, he said, "a classic arson case": there were "puddle patterns all over the place — no disputing those".

It was, as a well-informed friend said, a "classic" look.

It was, the musicologist Joseph Kerman said, a "classic paradigm shift".

He said a classic example would be the dinner at which everyone else speaks a different language and someone makes an apparently hilarious but incomprehensible comment.

Mr. Roy, the Killingly fire marshal, said a classic Mustang automobile being restored in the barn was also destroyed.

Bea said a "classic failure of leadership and management in BP" had caused the spill and that BP had not used its own safety code — known as the operating management system (OMS) — safety framework at the ill-fated rig.

It was, you could say, a classic economic bubble, the Tiger Bubble.

Good value and, it almost goes without saying, a classic combination with seafood and smoked salmon.

With remarkable speed, "Beloved" has, less than 20 years after its publication, become a staple of the college literary curriculum, which is to say a classic.

It was, Sanger says, a "classic paradox: to stop a war from happening," Obama "had to declare he was willing, as a last resort, to help the Israelis take out Iran's facilities".

Piled on top of each other, they are, the authorities say, a classic place for immigrants to hide.