ICON in a Sentence

Learn ICON 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.

50 example sentences for ICON, such as:

1. The ads helped Nike to achieve iconic status.
2. Enter your password, then click on the 'proceed' icon.
3. Andrew understood, crossed himself and kissed the icon.
4. I saw it myself, master, the star is fixed into the icon.
5. Her brother would have taken the icon, but she stopped him.

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 Meanings and Examples of ICON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
icon
 n.  religious image; idol; important and enduring symbol
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will never take it off.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
2  She crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to Andrew.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
3  Her brother would have taken the icon, but she stopped him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
4  Andrew understood, crossed himself and kissed the icon.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
5  Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest outside his uniform.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
6  She saw him tender and amused as he was when he put on the little icon.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VII
7  She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VIII
8  In her snug room, with lamps burning before the icon stand, a young lad with a long nose and long hair, wearing a monk's cassock, sat on the sofa beside her, behind a samovar.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII
9  I saw it myself, master, the star is fixed into the icon.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII
10  A shopman who entered told her that her husband had gone with others to the cathedral, whence they were fetching the wonder-working icon of Smolensk.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
11  Behind them soldiers and officers bore a large, dark-faced icon with an embossed metal cover.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXI
12  This was the icon that had been brought from Smolensk and had since accompanied the army.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXI
13  The hot rays of the sun beat down vertically and a fresh soft wind played with the hair of the bared heads and with the ribbons decorating the icon.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXI
14  An immense crowd of bareheaded officers, soldiers, and militiamen surrounded the icon.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXI
15  The crowd round the icon suddenly parted and pressed against Pierre.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence:
1  This small icon indicates that the plastic yard sign they adorn is either recyclable.
2  That icon is rather enchanting, although I'm sure that's not much of a comfort.
3  He is a pop icon designed and manufactured for the video generation.
4  Nelson Mandela, who guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy and became an international icon of peace and reconciliation, died Thursday at age 95.
5  In honour of what would have been his 85th birthday, the mad minds over at Google are paying tribute to Canadian TV icon Mr. Dressup with a Google doodle.
6  Enter your password, then click on the 'proceed' icon.
7  To uninstall this demo, double-click the Add/Remove icon.
8  Tommy was playing MacArthur, an iconic hero emblazoned on everyone's consciousness, and I was the guy that nobody knew.
9  A ''super computer'' has duped humans into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy to become the first machine to pass the ''iconic'' Turing Test, experts have said.
10  The iconic icehouse, demolished last year and rebuilt in replica, is situated in the west orchards.
11  The ads helped Nike to achieve iconic status.