Example sentences for: symbolically

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

  • Even by the abstract and deconstructive standards of the film he felt underdeveloped to me, undermotivated; complicated though he was, he remained a sidekick, his decisions less closely examined and symbolically freighted and intensely presented than those of Clooney or Wahlberg.

  • This diagnosis, which describes the delayed aftereffects of extremely unpleasant experiences, made it into the DSM-III as a result of lobbying by Vietnam veterans who wanted their continued suffering symbolically and financially recognized.

  • I'm leaving number ten symbolically blank, because I couldn't decide among so many terrific films.

  • Although some very good work predates it, you might say that the show symbolically begins with his Erased de Kooning Drawing of 1953.

  • In her pathology of rumor in African-American culture, I Heard It Through the Grapevine , Patricia A. Turner suggests that symbolically potent products like athletic gear and flashy clothes--products that tote high price tags but are of dubious utility--invite hostile theorizing.


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