Example Sentences

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“Though purple may have symbolized a higher order, it reeked of a lower ordure,” Dr. Grovier writes in his book, “The Art of Colour.”

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2024

Possibly this too might have symbolized the second day of a month of changes, of one day blending into the next, with small shifts that over time could become significant differences.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022

Far from the dusty, fallow fields, the record-breaking wildfires and the shrinking reservoirs that have symbolized extreme drought farther inland, towns along the Mendocino Coast are grappling with a more invisible crisis.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2021

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and members of the Congressional Black Caucus made the moral case for removing the statues that have symbolized America's history of slavery and oppression of African Americans.

From Fox News • Jul. 22, 2020

Whatever this religious ceremony—for such I supposed it to be—may have symbolized, it was finally concluded by the entire party uniting in a fierce chant.

From Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France by Parrish, Randall