SYMBOLIZE in a Sentence

Learn SYMBOLIZE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
86 example sentences for SYMBOLIZE, such as:
1. Dragon is regarded as a symbol of power.
2. A stressful job can actually be a status symbol.
3. The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.
4. Each element of the ceremony has a symbolic meaning.
5. And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SYMBOLIZE
symbolize
 v.  express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
 v.  represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs purporting to symbolize stone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  No, thought I, there must be some sober reason for this thing; furthermore, it must symbolize something unseen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
3  Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
4  All this without that diabolic aid which is surely to him; for it have to yield to the powers that come from, and are, symbolic of good.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  The long shadows of the forest had slipped down hill while we talked, had gone far beyond the ruined hovel, beyond the symbolic row of stakes.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
6  The last Count of Spada, moreover, made me his heir, bequeathing to me this symbolic breviary, he bequeathed to me all it contained; no, no, make your mind satisfied on that point.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
7  There was something almost bridal in his own aspect: his large white gardenia had a symbolic air that struck Lily as a good omen.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
8  The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic customs which tradition has attached to each season of the year were yet a reality on Egdon.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
9  At his desire, she went hunting, which was his symbol of happiness, and she ordered porridge for breakfast, which was his symbol of morality.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  He refused to wear soft hats; cleaved to a hard derby, as a symbol of virility and prosperity; and sometimes he forgot to take it off in the house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
12  There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
13  Then come out those fiery effulgences, infernally superb; then the evil-blazing diamond, once the divinest symbol of the crystal skies, looks like some crown-jewel stolen from the King of Hell.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
14  A dark valley between three mighty, heaven-abiding peaks, that almost seem the Trinity, in some faint earthly symbol.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
15  The wind that made great bellies of their sails, and rushed the vessel on by arms invisible as irresistible; this seemed the symbol of that unseen agency which so enslaved them to the race.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  When the 16th century construction was destroyed by Bosnian Croat forces in November 1993, it seemed to symbolize the complete disintegration in relations between Bosnia's Muslims, Croats and Serbs and the country's descent into all-out war.
2  The police in Bangladesh charged the owners of a garment factory and 11 of their employees with culpable homicide in the deaths of 112 workers in a fire last year that came to symbolize the appalling working conditions in the country's dominant textile industry.
3  The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.
4  A lot of Latin-American officials are stressing the symbolic importance of the trip.
5  Each element of the ceremony has a symbolic meaning.
6  It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.
7  The protest was a symbolic gesture of anger at official policy.
8  The king is limited to a symbolic figurehead, however the institution elicits huge amount of respect and reverence from the Thai people.
9  Each symbol was placed in front of larger crosses bearing the name and crest of the unit or group.
10  White has always been a symbol of purity in Western cultures.
11  Dragon is regarded as a symbol of power.
12  The Agriculture Department today released a new graphic to replace the old symbol.
13  She wants to be known as a singer rather than as a sex symbol.
14  To them, the monarchy is the special symbol of nationhood.
15  A stressful job can actually be a status symbol.