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outstandingly superior to
in intelligence he was head and shoulders above the others in his class
How To Use head and shoulders above In A Sentence
- The newcomer, dubbed Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, stands head and shoulders above his cousins, weighing in at a massive 700 grammes (1.5 pounds), about 25 percent larger than any other known sengi. Archive 2008-01-01
- Our own churchly figurehead stands head and shoulders above most of his ecclesiastical contemporaries and many senior politicians.
- But the fizzing dialogue puts Peep Show head and shoulders above the rash of dire comedies on our screens. The Sun
- All the programs in the suite have a coherent design, even when you start getting into their more complex settings, and it's in this usability that McAfee is head and shoulders above any of its rivals.
- There they stand, head and shoulders above all others, some aggressive and pushy, others large and showy.
- In case you're not in the know, "single barrel" means that unlike most whiskeys, which are blended and bottled from several different barrels in which the elixir has been aging, each bottle comes from one specially selected barrel that's determined by the distiller to be (barrel) head and shoulders above the rest of the batch. Tony Sachs: When the Leaves Turn Brown, So Does the Booze: Three New Whiskeys for Autumn
- Charioteers would steer towards their targets with just their head and shoulders above water until, 60 feet out, they would dive to a depth of about 30 feet.
- Craig was head and shoulders above the rest of the field beating his nearest rival by over a minute.
- She's head and shoulders above any other celebrity subject on our website. The Sun
- IN THE pantheon of rock family dynasties, one surely stands head and shoulders above the others.