Example sentences for: embody

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

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

  • Or are both Hanks and Washington in scripts you don't like because as scripts they embody treacly triumphalism?

  • This long-running campaign (which has helped the brand become the world's most popular) portrays a disciplined man of experience who seems to embody a cowboy code of honor, a traditional regard for women, and the offer of a self-sacrificing friendship with other males who can meet his standards of what it is to be a man.

  • , nonshowbiz) person, let alone to be able to embody one.

  • In a dangerously cantilevered sentence of the kind that Steiner does at times resort to, he asserts: "[I]t may well be that the ethnic-demographic elements in the successive waves of American settlement are 'Darwinian negative,' that they embody the brilliant survival of an anti-historical species, where 'anti-historianism' would entail an abdication from those adaptive mechanisms of tragic intellectuality, of ideological 'caring' (Kierkegaard's, Heidegger's word Sorge ) which are indispensable to cultural creation of the first rank."


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