Example sentences for: platonic

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

  • I will assume that you mean "platonic."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Glenn's vision of the Senate is Platonic: a committee of the wise, elevated above conflict and partisanship, that does what is right for the nation.

  • One of her more comical tics is to repeat a concept over and over, uncritically, until it takes on an almost physical presence, like a parody of a Platonic ideal.


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