embody
verb (used with object)
to give a concrete form to; express, personify, or exemplify in concrete form.
had embodied
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past perfectof embody.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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FA chair Debbie Hewitt said Southgate had "embodied the best of English football".
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024
As Nikki Haley stepped to the podium Saturday night, the bravado she had embodied after losing in New Hampshire a month earlier was gone.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
Costa had embodied that turnaround with two goals in his first three league games, and he was at his snarling best at the Liberty Stadium.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2016
Through the group’s first five studio albums and two earlier Australian releases, Scott had embodied AC/DC’s ribald and rebellious personality.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2014
For immortality, he said that he had embodied his feelings in the “Old Pictures in Florence” in the lines ending “I have had troubles enough for one.”
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
