Example sentences for: archetypal

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

  • Kanazawa is still considered an archetypal castle town, even though the university now occupies the spot once dominated by the long-destroyed castle.

  • The Taínos were the ones who introduced the Spanish to tobacco, corn on the cob, and that archetypal Caribbean mode of relaxation, the hammock.

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

  • 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.

  • In a strong-minded county like Cornwall an individual may be admired as being as tough as Hancock's mother—an archetypal dragon lady rooted in local history.


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