Example sentences for: emblem

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

  • As one writer put it, “It is finally time to let go of a single, narrow understanding of the tale and to see La Llorona instead as an always evolving emblem of gender, sexuality, and power—and, too, as another female victim of history’s tender mercies” (Candelaria, 115).

  • It also invokes a remarkably complex set of references, and so might stand as an emblem of the '60s--the decade and the book--for a number of reasons.

  • It has been speculated that the word is related to the Egyptian d”rt , a term for the Red Crown of Upper Egypt, whose emblem was the bee.

  • Such recent use has decisively transformed the standard 20 th century emblem of female oppression back into the erotic device it always was.

  • The lesson: "The shattered family is the emblem of Cuba."


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