incarnate
adjective
embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form.
incarnates
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present tense formof incarnate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Santos incarnates its venal and ridiculous side, the part rooted in reality TV and get-rich-quick schemes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
Ray Fisher incarnates, with natural majesty, the brawn and bravado of Muhammad Ali; Edwin Lee Gibson shambles and stammers as Stepin Fetchit while retaining the dignity of a canny survivor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, told Europe 1 radio that Ms. Baker was a “magnificent symbol who incarnates the love for France that can also come from people who are not born here.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
If a stentorian voice once prevailed on public radio, the model of the host that Glass incarnates, and that Brian Reed embodies on “S-Town”—a sensitive, hesitating, transparently liberal male—has become equally ubiquitous today.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
His spirit responds to his country's spirit … he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
