Example sentences for: embody

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

  • Broderick provoked a lot of nasty reviews in Godzilla (1998), but it wasn't his fault that his worried wiseguy act came to embody everything that was lightweight and fatuously noncommittal about that awful movie.

  • In describing Nichols' interpretation, the problem of technique immediately arises, because to give examples of specific line readings suggests that he's merely made a sequence of acting choices, when what makes his performance so engrossing is his ability to embody all these aspects of his character at once.

  • More than anyone else in his generation, Edward Said has sought to embody an unfashionable, perhaps obsolescent idea of the intellectual--immersed in culture and committed to politics, placing "criticism over solidarity," speaking truth to power, and steering clear of gods that fail.

  • Thus, while cultivars may embody a high degree of obvious phenotypic variation, this may not always be a good predictor of the extent of their genetic variation.

  • "A dismal sitcom that seems to embody all that is wrong with dismal sitcoms" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ).


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