How to Use par excellence in a Sentence

par excellence

adjective
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  • No doubt, the rabbis led the way in the count toward Shavuot as the rabbis are the teachers par excellence of Torah.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 1 May 2018
  • The northern European whites in the HapMaps are the whites par excellence.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2010
  • To teach this point, the kohen, the teacher par excellence, is mandated not to have any contact with the dead.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • This is pants-off, sitting-in-front-of-the-fan, double-fisting-with-a-glass-of-rosé dinner par excellence.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 31 July 2017
  • But none of its shenanigans diminish the fact that this car is a corner-carver par excellence.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2021
  • No, a Mercedes-Maybach is for serene, airship-like gliding, which the S580e promises to do par excellence.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The diva par excellence announced that her first album in 15 years, Thank You, will come out in September.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 June 2021
  • The effort to unwind America’s role as an offshore haven par excellence has wind at its sails at last.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Find a piazza or a park and enjoy a picnic par excellence.
    — Matt Goulding, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 June 2018
  • Alice Neel was the painter par excellence of New York’s human comedy.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2021
  • This, the former home of a 14th-century doge (plus two more modern annexes), is the Venetian grande dame par excellence.
    — Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
  • With the 2020 election looming, the autumn brought back-to-back doses of Cohen as button-pusher par excellence.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
  • And with good reason—this is cabin country par excellence, with low-key townships dotting the craggy shoreline all the way up to Canada.
    — Brandon Presser, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 July 2023
  • The people who crafted these stories, and who designed the content that reached millions and continues to spread to this day, are creators par excellence.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Yet Blink in their heyday were always pop par excellence, and accusing them of selling out is ridiculous.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Then again, the Gourmet character par excellence is precisely that: a man engaged in a long, losing battle with a world that will always have the upper hand.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The veil [headscarf] is seen as the symbol par excellence of religious visibility’’ and is ‘‘seen by some . . .
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Consider his case study of tiny Barbados (21 miles long, 19 miles wide), the sugar-island par excellence.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • But where Carver’s genius really shone wasn’t so much as an inventor but as a thrifter par excellence.
    — Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But plenty of name artists have been looking for Elbert, who, in addition to her solo work, has made quite a name for herself as a guitar player par excellence.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • French-born, raven-haired and loquacious, the Vestiaire Collective and William Vintage alum is a vintage hunter par excellence.
    — Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The problem is that his fellow economists have—for decades, over and over, nonstop—gone to Herculean efforts to identify Summers as a hack par excellence.
    — Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The book’s essay on a once-popular marque explains that in Europe—especially north of the Alps—Saab was the architect’s car, par excellence.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2021
  • As Italy’s tourist destination par excellence, Venice has become a bellwether for the country and Europe more broadly.
    — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The steady decay of English syntax is a first-world problem par excellence, and tsk-tsking over sloppy grammar amounts to a haughty and rather geriatric form of entertainment.
    — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Rather, for my generation space and NASA had become rather pedestrian, with the shuttle being a sky ferry par excellence.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2012
  • This retrospective sent a collective shivering depth charge through viewers’ psyches and showed that Neel was the painter par excellence of modern life.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
  • To be sure, Mike was a conspiracy theorist par excellence.
    — Preston Lerner, Wired, 22 Mar. 2020
  • One particular line-reading of Nilsson’s sticks with me after all these years, and happily it’s preserved on the 1966 Bayreuth Tristan (my desert island discs par excellence).
    — Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2018
  • Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made, and if so, who gets to do the making?
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024

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