Example sentences for: mascot

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

  • In Cigarettes , Klein's mascot was the Baudelairean dandy--that rare figure for whom the cultivation of personal elegance is more important than health (and who is, therefore, a model for the unrepentant smoker).

  • Consider the University of Florida's Independent Florida Aggravator (Alligator , the U. of F. mascot); Virginia Tech's Dependent (Independent) ; the University of Illinois' Daily Illiterate (Illini); North Carolina State U.'s Tackynician (Technician); University of North Carolina's Daily Tar Hole (Tar Heel); University of Maryland's Dime-a-Stack (Diamondback; in fact they're free); Southern Methodist University's Daily Compost (Daily Post); Rice University's Rice Thrasher (Rice Thresher); Ohio State University's Latrine (Lantern); Baylor University's Hilariat (Lariat); Michigan State University's Stale News (State News); San Jose State University's Spotted Doily (Spartan Daily); Southern Illinois U.'s Daily Erection (Egyptian); and Indiana U.'s Daily Stupid (Student) .

  • He's the perfect mascot for a have-it-both-ways hip/square disaster epic, which parodies The Right Stuff machismo and wants you to buy into it at the same time (which is true, come to think of it, of The Right Stuff itself).

  • I couldn't help imagining a life-size dancing mascot.

  • They believed that its great theme was the struggle of the individual wandering alone in the wilderness, and they turned Huck into a mascot for the Lonely Searching Man.


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