Example sentences for: archetype

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

  • He claims that Kennedy is the archetype of today's "New Democrat."

  • Is Henry the archetype of the Hero, Machiavellian or otherwise?

  • 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.

  • But in an evocative (if self-serving) piece in The New Yorker , Raphael notes that his original script was ultimately "blanched of all the duplicity that made it alive" for him, that at every turn Kubrick took out details of personality in pursuit of an underlying archetype.


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