Example sentences for: embody

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

  • The Balearic Islands don’t have to work too hard to embody the perfect island vacation.

  • Part of what's appealing about these places is that the idea of style they embody is holistic.

  • In this poem, he sees divine grandeur not simply in a trite vision of "nature," but in nature as human nature affects it, too: industrial images such as shaking metal foil or crushed oil embody the grandeur.

  • This serialized myth presents a roster of stock characters--among them, the erotic dynamo, male; the erotic dynamo, female; the sexless genius, male only; the sexless workaholic, female only; the amiable doofus--to nobly embody or disgracefully lack the qualities we prize.

  • 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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