Example sentences for: archetype

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

  • Instead of being a Jezebel-like "temptress" (Charles Krauthammer, Inside Washington ), she's an archetype of the blameless sexual assault victim.

  • Henry V is, in fact, Shakespeare's archetype of the perfect Hero-King precisely because of his Machiavellian qualities (which certainly are present)--Henry understands, as he explains during his tour of the army before Agincourt, that the moral demands upon a King are very different from those upon ordinary men.

  • But Wolf builds it up into a timeless international archetype.

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

  • She is a beloved female archetype among contemporary Chicanas, who write poems, short stories, and academic research articles about her.


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