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Example sentences for: icons

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

They are icons, in short, either of their pioneering professions or else of their stereotypically feminine situation.
The benefit of such pathway and circuit diagrams is, of course, that they help us infer and track how a change in a 'state property' (for example, metabolite concentration versus electrical voltage) of one icon acts via an 'action property' (metabolic flux rate versus electrical current) on the state properties of linked icons.
They're on your screen and in your face, these icons, chattering relentlessly about success, shoes, hot dogs, shoes, pop, phones, shoes, shoes ...
For the categorically minded, there is a nominal division of styles: icons (Elvis and the Beatles); poets and dreamers (Janis, the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, Bruce Springsteen); rebels (Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Courtney Love); and the categories of brilliant disguise (Bowie, Bono, Björk) and high style (Cher, Madonna, Puff Daddy).
In addition to creating new icons by derivation, compound icons representing complex structures can be built by aggregating icons according to common-sense structural rules (for example, a 'molecular site', but not a cell, can be part of a molecule).