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How to use symbolize in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Symbolize means to be symbolic of; to represent. Example: “Doves often symbolize peace.”

Examples of symbolize by meaning

verbTo be symbolic of; to represent.

  • Doves often symbolize peace.
  • The broken chain symbolizes freedom.
  • The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion

verbTo convert something into a symbol.

  • In them, the wedding is symbolized.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 365

More sentences with symbolize

  • The markets crashing symbolized capital’s discontent with the tax reforms passed.From the entry capital
  • The ceremony of baptism symbolizes spiritual rebirth.From the entry baptism
  • Forged by King Consort Radagon to proudly symbolize the tenets of the Golden Order.2022, FromSoftware (developer), Hidetaka Miyazaki, George R. R. Martin (writers), Elden Ring, →OCLC, scene: "Golden Order Greatsword" item…. From the entry king consort
  • These TikTok users have also come up with a flag to symbolize 'super straight' people.2021 March 7, Prerna Nambiar, “What is super straight movement on TikTok? Super straight flag gets slammed”, in HITC, archived from the…. From the entry super straight
  • What a gin blossom is literally — what it symbolizes, I suppose, is loss of control.2019, Adam Dolgins, The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names, page 1994. From the entry gin blossom
  • The dissertators usually begin with famous words, which symbolize the mainstream of viewpoints in their specific field.2018, Kiyoung Kim, Piece to Text on the Monument and One. From the entry dissertator
  • Orthophotos or orthophoto mosaics enhanced by additional symbolized, planimetric information are called orthophoto plans.2012, T. J. Blachut, A. Chrzanowski, J. H. Saastamoinen, Urban Surveying and Mapping, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 293. From the entry orthophoto
  • The kutya is eaten from a common dish to symbolize unity.2009, Alisa White Karwowski, “The ‘Holy Supper’”, in A Guide to Russian Adoption: Professional Counseling and Personal Insights, Westport…. From the entry kutya
  • With the rebus principle, sound could be made visible in a systematic way, and abstract concepts symbolized.2008, Amy Bryzgel, New Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1987–1999. From the entry rebus principle
  • It was a daffodil scent; it symbolized spring and the hope that spring always brings.2007, Celia Lyttelton, The Scent Trail: An Olfactory Odyssey, London […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry concrete
  • The stone grouping (iwagumi) uses seven stones symbolizing the seven wise men.2007, Motomi Oguchi, Create your own Japanese garden, page 36. From the entry iwagumi
  • Installed in a stark London gallery, Emin's work symbolized the beach hut as icon of the seaside.2006, Fred Gray, chapter C, in Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature, page 176. From the entry beach hut
  • Pawning the altarcloth powerfully symbolized this renunciation of the abbey's liberty.2006, Susan Boynton, Shaping a Monastic Identity, page 29. From the entry altarcloth
  • Early depictions were anastasic, the empty cross symbolizing the resurrection and hiding the manner of Jesus' death.2005 September, Rita Nakashima Brock, “Communities of the Cross: Christa and the Communal Nature of Redemption”, in Feminist Theology…. From the entry anastasic
  • The Pencil is an action tool that symbolizes the use of creative thought.2004, Sangeet Duchane, The Little Book of Freemasonry, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry skirrett
  • The crowned lion on the left represents Berg whereas the lion on the right symbolizes Jülich.2004, Jamestown Rediscovery, 1994-2004, page 4. From the entry charbocle
  • This symbolizes the "pearl of great price" that gives purpose to life.2002, Warrior of Light: The Life of Nicholas Roerich: Artist, Himalayan Explorer, and Visionary, page 52. From the entry chela
  • The ziggurat—a lofty, massive, solid-brick, multistaged temple tower that symbolized a sacred mountain.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 59. From the entry multistaged
  • This gesture symbolizes the offering of the "breath of life" or eternity.1994, Mira Bartok, Christine Ronan, Ancient Egypt and Nubia, page 11. From the entry ankh
  • The wands are Spenser's phallic white rods, here symbolizing wintry devitalization.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry devitalization
  • Phenomimes "depict" states, conditions, or manners of the external world, while psychomimes symbolize mental conditions or sensations.1990, Masayoshi Shibatani, The languages of Japan, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry phenomime
  • The Amazonomachia, or Amazon contest, symbolized the struggle of civilization against barbarism.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry Amazonomachia
  • The large stone symbolizes the act of confrontal, and the small stones the act of being pursued.1964, Katsuo Saito, Sadaji Wada, translated by Richard L[ee] Gage, “Spiritual Symbolism”, in Magic of Trees and Stones: Secrets of…. From the entry confrontal
  • Eccles' handshake, eager and practiced and hard, seems to symbolize for him an embrace.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 88. From the entry handshake
  • All violent emotions, like uncouth nature, have become stylized, symbolized, daintified.1960, Arthur Koestler, The Lotus and the Robot, page 195. From the entry daintified
  • Living on bare Navy symbolized having to exist on the coarse fare supplied by the Service.1946, Edwin Radford, Unusual Words and how They Came About, page 15. From the entry bare navy
  • Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them.1927, L. Bloomfield et al., Language, number 3, page 129. From the entry distinctive
  • The arrangement of pipes symbolizes the folded wings of the mythical phoenix, whose cry the shō's sound is said to represent.2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art…. From the entry sho
  • It symbolizes the baby Jesus, from Christianity.2014, Julie Murray, “King Cake”, in Mardi Gras (A Buddy Book), Minneapolis, Minn.: ABDO Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry king cake
  • As we have come to see, places have power, and power is symbolized by its possession of place.2014, Alastair Bonnett, “Kangbashi”, in Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies, 1st U.S. edition…. From the entry ordos
  • Indeed it is that equipment – notably the chains and manacles – which to this day symbolizes the slave ships themselves.2013, James Walvin, “Mutinies and Revolts”, in Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade, London: Reaktion Books…. From the entry manacle
  • This purple light of Venus-Sophia-Lucifer was symbolized with purple colour.2012, Mika Virpiranta, Sun Cults versus Thunder Cults. From the entry argaman
  • Catalan friends appreciate him only for his Catalanness, symbolized by thewearing of the distinctive Catalan peasant's cap known as the barretina.2002, David John George, Theatre in Madrid and Barcelona, 1892–1936: rivals or collaborators?, page 38. From the entry Catalanness
  • Thirteen stars were scattered across the field, and in the upper left was a white crescent symbolizing Missouri.2001 December 10, Robert Maberry Jr., Texas Flags, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry Van Dorn battle flag
  • Without cultural programming, they could never become symbolizing organs.2000, Larry Nucci, Geoffrey B. Saxe, Elliot Turiel, Culture, Thought, and Development, →ISBN. From the entry superprimate
  • Those numbers symbolize a long, happy marriage.1997, Douglas D. Daye, “Ethnic Profile: The Chinese”, in A Law Enforcement Sourcebook of Asian Crime and Cultures: Tactics and Mindsets…. From the entry hongbao

Meaning of symbolize

  1. verb To be symbolic of; to represent.
  2. verb To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
  3. verb To convert something into a symbol.

Full definition of symbolize

Questions about symbolize in a sentence

How do you use symbolize in a sentence?
Symbolize is used as a verb. For example: “Doves often symbolize peace.”
What is a short sentence with symbolize?
“Doves often symbolize peace.”
What does symbolize mean?
Symbolize means to be symbolic of; to represent.

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