Example sentences for: archetype

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

  • People continue to believe in Coppola because he is the romantic archetype of the movie director.

  • In England, apparently, this makes him an archetype of male cool.

  • It's the archetype for Marcel Duchamp's urinal, Jackson Pollock's drips, Andy Warhol's soup can, and Jasper Johns' flag.

  • The pachuca was the counterpart of the pachuco of the 1940s but also the home-girl archetype that comes together in the young Chicana growing up in an urban ghettoized environment.

  • Curiously, Richard Nixon, that archetype of political deceit, provides no ready example of résumé rewriting--unless you want to count "I am not a crook."


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