Sentence examples for sherlock from inspiring English sources
The word 'sherlock' is correct and usable in written English
It is used to refer to a person who is exceptionally good at solving difficult problems or mysteries. For example, "He was a real sherlock when it came to understanding customer needs."
verb
To deduce; to figure out; to solve.
The BBC is likely to dominate Christmas viewing this year with a schedule including a Christmas Day edition of Doctor Who, starring Matt Smith and his successor as the doctor, Peter Capaldi, and the much-anticipated return of Sherlock on New Year's Day.
On her retirement in 1991, after working on television, which included two Sherlock Holmes TV movies, The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles (both 1983), and the mini-series A Perfect Hero (1991), she became a successful oil painter.
On Friday a study by Film London revealed that the actor's other leading role, in the BBC's Sherlock, has created nearly £11m worth of publicity for the capital.
Favourite TV detective "I got the latest Sherlock boxset for Mother's Day and I'm going to watch it with my daughter".
However, it criticises the portrayal of Moriarty in BBC One drama Sherlock.
The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield, published as part of A Spaniard in the Works, is a send-up of Sherlock Holmes featuring the sleuth Shamrock Womlbs and his trusty sidekick Doctored Whopper.
"Yes, the biggest hits in the UK are still mainstream shows such as Downton Abbey, Broadchurch or Sherlock but the likes of Amazon and Netflix have shown that you don't need zillions of viewers, you just need a few million who are very loyal and you can make high-end hits.
Last week, BBC1's Sherlock took home no fewer than seven Emmys – a higher total than Game of Thrones or even Breaking Bad, which was hailed as the big winner on the night.
"Book sales have been helping us in our fight against poverty for more than 50 years, as we've sold everything from the first ever Sherlock Holmes story to the latest Harry Potter novel," said David McCullough, Oxfam's director of trading.
One pertinent early example is in Conan Doyle's "The Sign of Four", in which Sherlock Holmes reveals to the admiring Dr Watson that he has written several monographs on technical subjects, one of them entitled "Upon the distinction between the ashes of various tobaccos".
Sherlock Holmes's flight to Europe after a brush with death in Vere Street, though it was nearly a century later, is taken by some critics as one of several hidden hints that the bachelor detective was one of mainstream literature's first gay protagonists.
