ICONIC in a Sentence

Learn ICONIC 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 ICONIC, such as:

1. The ads helped Nike to achieve iconic status.
2. The icons, and my dowry bed, all the rest is lost.
3. Enter your password, then click on the 'proceed' icon.
4. Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons with a sigh.
5. He is a pop icon designed and manufactured for the video generation.

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 Meanings and Examples of ICONIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
iconic
 a.  of or pertaining to a portrait or likeness or to portraiture; of the nature of a portrait
 a.  Relating to, or having the characteristics of icon, that is, the person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
2  Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons with a sigh.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
3  He lay just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
4  The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door with her knitting.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VIII
5  Natasha was sitting on the bed, pale and dry eyed, and was gazing at the icons and whispering something as she rapidly crossed herself.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIII
6  Or, turning to Mademoiselle Bourienne, he would ask her in Princess Mary's presence how she liked our village priests and icons and would joke about them.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
7  She assumed an attitude of prayer, looked at the icons, repeated the words of a prayer, but she could not pray.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
8  In the foremost place, immediately under the icons, sat Barclay de Tolly, his high forehead merging into his bald crown.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IV
9  The countess went into the oratory and there Sonya found her on her knees before the icons that had been left here and there hanging on the wall.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVII
10  Natasha, pale, with a fixed look, was sitting on the bench under the icons just where she had sat down on arriving and paid no attention to her father's words.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXI
11  The small lamp in front of the icons was the only light left in the room.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXI
12  By the side of the path, on the dusty dry grass, all sorts of household goods lay in a heap: featherbeds, a samovar, icons, and trunks.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
13  The icons, and my dowry bed, all the rest is lost.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
14  called us all to him and, will you believe it, placed us in front of the icons.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XII
15  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
Example Sentence:
1  Tommy was playing MacArthur, an iconic hero emblazoned on everyone's consciousness, and I was the guy that nobody knew.
2  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.
3  The iconic icehouse, demolished last year and rebuilt in replica, is situated in the west orchards.
4  The ads helped Nike to achieve iconic status.
5  This small icon indicates that the plastic yard sign they adorn is either recyclable.
6  That icon is rather enchanting, although I'm sure that's not much of a comfort.
7  He is a pop icon designed and manufactured for the video generation.
8  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.
9  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.
10  Enter your password, then click on the 'proceed' icon.
11  To uninstall this demo, double-click the Add/Remove icon.