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Example sentences for: symbolic

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I'll admit that when I first spotted the net, I failed to grasp its symbolic importance.
But Ambassador Sheehan indicated that even if UNSCR 1333 failed to stop the arms flow from Pakistan to the Taliban, it had enormous symbolic importance.
Berman locates his second search for meaning in the "gay awakening" that had its symbolic start in the 1969 protest at the Stonewall bar in Manhattan.
With its right rear leg touching a symbolic bird, the Gansu horse is the subject of countless reproductions at home and abroad.
La Stampa of Turin, however, supported the idea of airstrikes against Serbia as "a symbolic act" against Milosevic's intransigence.