Holmes

How To Use Holmes In A Sentence

• There is much to ponder in Evans's paper that resuscitates many ideas from Arthur Holmes of a generation ago.
• The Centenier finished his coffee, while Holmes selected and filled his briar pipe.
• And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
• Created by novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes was an investigative genius who could routinely assess seemingly random clues and solve the mystery.
• Robert Keller suggests that Holmes did indeed meet his death at the falls, but came back for subsequent adventures as ‘the world's first consulting ghost’.
• Holmes however was just seen in an exhibition fight, so it might be that the old warhorse will still step in the ring despite what the public would hope.
• Not even the camera and its glass plate photography could compare with Holmes's panoramas drawn with such meticulous detail.
• The police were baffled, and Sherlock Holmes was called in to investigate.
• Holmes matched Boulmerka stride for stride down the home straight to finish second.
• Understandably, the Royal Society of Chemistry has just honoured Holmes with a fellowship, the first time an imaginary character is being recognised.