Sherlock Definition

noun
A detective.
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Origin of Sherlock

  • After Sherlock Holmes, detective in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sherlock Sentence Examples

  • Thomas Sherlock declared that " Mr Law was a writer so considerable that he knew but one good reason why his lordship did not answer him."

  • Thus it was Bentley versus Collins, Sherlock versus Woolston, Law versus Tindal.

  • Amongst those who replied to him were Richard Bentley, Edward Chandler, bishop of Lichfield, and Thomas Sherlock, afterwards bishop of London, who also attacked Woolston.

  • He was followed by Thomas Burnet and Dean Sherlock.

  • I sure wish I had said something to you earlier, Sherlock.

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