Example Sentences

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“A lot of times when you make movies about soldiers, they get archetypically pigeonholed as either heroes or broken people that need healing,” says Carolin.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2022

It is between 15 degrees and -5 degrees Fahrenheit that the archetypically beautiful snowflakes usually form.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021

Writing in this magazine in 1980, George W. S. Trow, Jr., observed of Baker, “Her artifice . . . depended on the effectiveness of certain small collisions—between things archetypically feminine, archetypically masculine, archetypically Negro, archetypically white.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2015

Sure, it has some of Mad Men’s bewitching period glamour and production design, but its plot machinations are painfully schematic and, with a few exceptions, each character is archetypically Good or Evil.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2012

If the great male detectives are archetypically loners, female detectives are doubly so.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2010