Example sentences for: platonic

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

  • There are kettles shaped like some of the major Platonic solids--cylinders, cones, and near-spheres.

  • Since then the myth has persisted that here encoded in these quasi-representational forms was the quintessence of thought, the eternal Platonic ideal, the Jungian Ur- symbol underlying all human cogitation--and by extrapolation, speech--the (al)lure of the fabulous (Far) East playing an obvious role.

  • The core concept of Lichtenstein's art is the iconic—drastic simplification of line and shadowing to reduce to the Platonic ideal of the object depicted—golf ball, truck tire, composition book, girl in love, or even the basic brushstroke of a daub of paint [1].

  • The chemistry between us is palpable, and we truly enjoy many things together in what is currently a platonic friendship.

  • Mathematicians are, after all, people who fancy that they commune with perfect Platonic objects--abstract spaces, infinite numbers, zeta functions--that are invisible to normal humans.


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