Example sentences for: archetypal

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

  • 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.

  • The Empress was built in 1905 to serve passengers ferried across from the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific and is the archetypal grand old railway hotel.

  • Leuchter, who looks a little like the archetypal movie dweeb Charles Martin Smith and has a heavy exurbs-of-Boston accent, explains how he became involved in redesigning problematic electric chairs.

  • "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.

  • The magazine publishes an "album of archetypal personalities."


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