Example sentences for: archetypes

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

  • In the pulp fiction of Burroughs, as in pulp fiction of any period, timeless archetypes rub shoulders with the vulgar prejudices of the writer and his audience.

  • The two campus archetypes were considered to be such polar opposites that the word knurd emerged.

  • Carl Jung once observed that it is easier to discern the presence of archetypes from the collective subconscious in works of pulp fiction by writers such as H. Rider Haggard than it is in literary masterpieces.

  • I would argue that Shakespeare did not create archetypes.

  • Or consider Pee-wee's Playhouse . Pee-wee Herman minces about and becomes obviously infatuated with other male characters who conform to gay archetypes.


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