Example sentences for: prefigure

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

  • A relief to turn from these pictures, which seem to prefigure our own sexually anxious age, to such comical dreams of resurrection as Spencer's exuberant The Dustman (1934), in which the Cookham garbage man has returned from the dead and is cradled like a baby in his wife's arms, while neighborhood children offer gifts of empty cans and other trash.

  • "It managed to prefigure the power-mad 80's," says the New York Times ' Janet Maslin, comparing Darth Vader to merger-and-acquisitions-mad corporate titans.

  • Such paintings, which Monet never intended for exhibition, prefigure to a remarkable degree the work of the most gestural Abstract Expressionists, such as De Kooning.

  • The band's ensemble structure seemed to prefigure the black music cooperatives then being set up in Chicago, St. Louis, and Los Angeles, as well as such emerging family funk bands as Sly and the Family Stone.


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