Example sentences for: epitomize

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

  • Harrowing tales of starvation and endurance epitomize Antarctica's “heroic age,” when men equipped with little more than fortitude struggled against a landscape seemingly designed to thwart their intentions.

  • If cuisines emerge organically over time from rooted people, then why pose the question about a people who have come to epitomize rootlessness?

  • It must also be said that the 20th century more than any earlier time has seen the accumulation of a more detailed documentation of life, as anyone knows from the plethora of scratchy, saccadic, often soundless images thrown on our television screens: a series on American gangsters, for instance, repeats radio broadcasts of the 1920s and 30s, bringing to us vividly not only the pictorial images of the day when, to modern youth, everyone wore black and white clothing and makeup but the words and accents of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Huey Long, Walter Winchell, and others who epitomize the era.

  • Throughout the city you’ll find a range of souvenirs which epitomize the Holland of the tourist brochures.

  • This reliance on the success of one or two films is unique to MGM and to this year--the studio should have a full slate again in 1998--but it does epitomize the industry's new dependence on blockbusters.


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