Example sentences for: archetypal

How can you use “archetypal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Before climbing the steps, make a small detour farther along Kongens Gade, past the Lutheran Parsonage (1725), to reach Government House, an archetypal colonial mansion.

  • The archetypal uncontrollable creation-gone-amok is Frankenstein's monster , commonly familiarized to Frankenstein by the incognizant who thus disserve Mary Shelley's Baron Frankenstein, the monster's creator.

  • A mere half-hour’s drive from Bologna on the autostrada takes you to this stronghold of the high-living d’Este dukes — archetypal scheming, murderous, lovable Renaissance villains who ruled from 1200 to 1600.

  • Note also Saramago's detached melancholy, his brainy anti-elitism, his characters who are lovable but archetypal and abstract.

  • "Now, lift !" The whole sequence has an archetypal enchantment, made even more savory by its naughty underpinnings: The aging master directs his prima ballerina in a sacred dance to larceny.


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