Example Sentences

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Drag teaches that to kids and shows you this queer person who is embodying what it is to just be yourself 100 percent.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2023

They had discovered that the secret to superstardom is embodying a paradox: they were normal guys, just like their fans, living a dream on behalf of the masses.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2016

In scoring a century before lunch at Worcester, he is embodying Lehmann's desire to take the game to the opposition by playing an attacking brand of cricket.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2013

What they are exceedingly good at is embodying the playfully quarrelsome couple -- and how better to promote their brand?

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2010

He is embodying angels, and spreading angelic light; himself, slipshod and loosely girdled, centring the radiance he creates.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various