Example Sentences

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If Apple customers have an embarrassing tendency to anthropomorphise their gadgets, that is because Apple has explored the possibilities of the human mind and body more thoroughly than any of its competitors.

From Salon • May 11, 2013

The robot's face they left as a visor, smooth and featureless, on the premise that humans will anthropomorphise anything.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2013

Their omnivorous diet, including a penchant for honey and berries, helps make it easy to anthropomorphise them.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2012

Humans like to anthropomorphise animals, of course, but certain animals – among them pandas, penguins and owls – seem to meet us halfway.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2010

So we spiritualise the material universe, and afterwards, by an incongruous consistency, anthropomorphise spirit.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various