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• In fact, students are often taught that specific collections—diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc.—typify these composers' compositional language.2009, Brian Moseley, “Form and Transpositional Combination in George Crumb's Lux Aeterna”, in Bruce Quaglia, Jack Boss, editors, Musical…. From the entry collection
• One person who typifies that feeling is Aaron Swartz, a 22-year-old programmer who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.2009 August 12, Bobbie Johnson, “Wikipedia approaches its limits”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023. From the entry Swartz
• East of Khotan itself, we find a local culture typified by a cemetery at Sampul (Shanpula).2000, J.P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, →ISBN, →OCLC…. From the entry lop
• He left the battle line respirited, with the spirit typified by the youthful Marine officer.1919, Hospital Corps Quarterly, numbers 10-15, page 52. From the entry respirit
• It fully typified the game plan, and boss Page will have been thrilled to remain on level terms.2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the…. From the entry on level terms
• The diskos, then, typifies the heavens, and for that reason, it is round, and holds the Master of heaven.2013, Bryan D[ouglas] Spinks, quoting Symeon of Thessalonica (in translation), “The Eucharist and Anaphoras of the Byzantine Synthesis”…. From the entry asterisk
• Figure 10.5 typifies this latter condition, in which the self-noise generated at the sonar dome of a warship is seen.2011, John Carlton, Marine Propellers and Propulsion, page 253. From the entry self-noise
• If there is a Protestant denomination that typifies the apparent death of denominational history, it has to be the Presbyterians.2008, Keith Harper, American Denominational History, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry denominational
• Our Mesozoic antecedents are typified by small size; even the largest of the multis are not larger than a groundhog.1996, Michael Novacek, Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs, page 316. From the entry multi
• Bankrobbers are typified by words like dangerous, mean, greedy, and dishonest pertaining to the total image of the person.1995, Elisabeth Lissenberg, “Fantasy and the Embodied Moral Capital: Children’s Moral Judgments of Crime and Criminals”, in Günter…. From the entry bankrobber
• The dancetime stylings of the leader-pianist typify for all ages the carefree mood of a night "on the town".1951, Radio Daily-television Daily - Volume 56, Issues 1-62, page 61. From the entry dancetime
• Are not the innumerable waves typified by the fifty Nereïds?1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 51. From the entry fifty
• This style of support is highly ritualistic and is typified by choreographies of flags, banners, pyrotechnics and chants that extol the virtues of their club.2015 February 10, Udo Merkel, Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles, Springer, →ISBN, page…. From the entry choreography
• The Upper Carboniferous Zhanjin Formation has attracted much attention from geoscientists for containing glacial–marine diamictite and cold‐water fauna typified by the bivalve Eurydesma.2015 October 24, Luo Shenglong, Wang Genhou, Gao Jinhan, Wang Xunlian, Xiao Hongji, “Age of the Purported Zhanjin Formation in Gêrzê…. From the entry Gêrzê
• He so typified the old West.2008, Erik D. Stoops, Serpentauria, page 19. From the entry Remington
• They are typified by those thermodynamicists who for decades have drawn ever closer to the temperature of absolute zero, when atoms cease all motion.1998 April 26, Edward O. Wilson, “The Ionian Enchantment”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2020. From the entry thermodynamicist
• Spermatophagy, a rare habit of feeding on seeds or the outer layers of a fruit, is typified by species in the scolytid genus Poecilips (Coccotrypes).1975, Pest management papers, numbers 2-7, Simon Fraser University, page 37. From the entry spermatophagy
• In accordance with the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (I.C.B.N.) art. 22.4 these subtribus are to be typified with Agaricus rhodopolius and A. pluteus respectively.1959, Persoonia, page 155. From the entry subtribus
• The novels sold 11mn copes in the UK alone, came to typify the rise of the so-called bonkbuster, and introduced readers to the world of horsey high society.2025 October 11, Alex Clark, “Obituary [Jilly Cooper]: Writer who created racy bonkbusters in Rutshire”, in FT Weekend, London: The…. From the entry horsey
• Weird fiction is, after all, notoriously typified by the presence of entities so radically different from normality that they are, to borrow a characteristic phrase from H.2020, Julius Greve, Florian Zappe, editors, The American Weird: Concept and Medium, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, pages 30–31. From the entry weird fiction
• Amidst the aseptically-perfumed bare functionality, typifying a hospital ward, a pretty and petite elfin teenage girl stirs – tawny hair all tousled and bed-headed, lips full yet petulant.2009, Garth P Toyntanen, Institutionalized 2, page 11. From the entry bed-headed
• The ‘have a nice day’ syndrome typifies a routinized approach to customer service where, by establishing procedures, service levels can be consistently maintained and efficiently managed.2004, Richard Brookes, Roger Palmer, The New Global Marketing Reality, Springer, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry have a nice day syndrome
• There is, for example, the homophony of "merry" and "Mary," which typifies the South Midland accent common in the hill country of east Tennessee and upper Georgia.1985 November 17, William E. Schmidt, “A HARVEST OF DIALECTS IN THE SOUTH”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry homophony
• Suppose two powerful, industrialized countries, called Usonia and Russonia, compete by mean of capital exports and other forms of "aid" for influence in various underdeveloped countries, typified by Thirdonia.1964, Albert O. Hirschmann, “The Stability of Neutralism: A Geometric Note”, in The American economic review, page 94. From the entry Usonia
• Dear Lord, we thank thee for we have at last safely passed the day when rampant militarism and beleggined Rough Riderism seemed to typify the nation’s ideals.1908 December 22, “Pert Paragraphs”, in The Shreveport Times, volume XXXVII, number 102, Shreveport, La., page 4, column 3. From the entry beleggined

Meaning of typify

1. verb To embody, exemplify; to represent by a form, image, model, or resemblance.
2. verb To portray stereotypically.
3. verb To serve as a typical or reference specimen of.

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How do you use typify in a sentence?

Typify is used as a verb. For example: “His attitude typifies the attitude of young people today.”

What is a short sentence with typify?

“He so typified the old West.”

What does typify mean?

Typify means to embody, exemplify; to represent by a form, image, model, or resemblance.