Example Sentences

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Burke uses the word “character” a lot in describing this team, which he said will epitomize “the Canadian Way.”

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2018

If we could pick one figure who we hope will epitomize this year more than any other, it would be Cy Young Award-winning pitcher R.A.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2012

"What will epitomize the 1990s is, Pay now."

From Time Magazine Archive

I have listened carefully, and there is only one name that will epitomize you.

From The Iron Heel by London, Jack

Since then I have done more, and although I have not time here to state the details of these researches, I will epitomize the principal facts.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various