SYMBOLS in a Sentence

Learn SYMBOLS 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 SYMBOLS, such as:

1. Exotic pets are the latest status symbol.
2. A stressful job can actually be a status symbol.
3. To them, the monarchy is the special symbol of nationhood.
4. The company car is an outward symbol of the employee's status.
5. It also points up the earring, which is important as a symbol.

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 Meanings and Examples of SYMBOLS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
symbolic
 a.  relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols
 a.  using symbolism
symbol
 n.  something used for or regarded as representing something else
symbolize
 v.  represent; signify; stand for
symbolism
 n.  practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; system of symbols or representations
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  For, Melanie, these things I have named are but the symbols of the thing for which I risk my life, symbols of the kind of life I love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  Behind them and mixed with them, the houses, meek cottages or large, comfortable, soundly uninteresting symbols of prosperity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  One could not stand and watch very long without becoming philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog squeal of the universe.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  His features were attractive in the light of symbols, as sounds intrinsically common become attractive in language, and as shapes intrinsically simple become interesting in writing.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
5  Having once recognized, however, that the symbols stood for letters, and having applied the rules which guide us in all forms of secret writings, the solution was easy enough.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
6  Accepting it as correct, we are now able to say that the symbols.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
7  The formula which he wrote obediently on the sheet of paper, the coiling and uncoiling calculations of the professor, the spectre-like symbols of force and velocity fascinated and jaded Stephen's mind.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  And there is also something about the shorthand symbols that makes it different from writing.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  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
10  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
11  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.
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  The Agriculture Department today released a new graphic to replace the old symbol.
17  She wants to be known as a singer rather than as a sex symbol.
18  To them, the monarchy is the special symbol of nationhood.
19  A stressful job can actually be a status symbol.
20  Among young people, this brand of designer clothing is the ultimate status symbol.
21  The company car is an outward symbol of the employee's status.
22  Exotic pets are the latest status symbol.
23  Often the destruction takes place in public, as a visible symbol of peace replacing war.
24  Having a female bodyguard is more than just a status symbol in Russia.
25  This cypress is tall and thin, and its branches used as a symbol of mourning.
26  It also points up the earring, which is important as a symbol.
27  Also known widely as the Fire Bird, the phoenix is a profound symbol of the circle of life.
28  He was great romantic hero of his century, an adventurer, and after his death in 1967, he became a symbol of revolution on t-shirts and walls of student homes.
29  It is a brief history of how the pineapple has served as both a food and a symbol.
30  This week, a giant symbol of mammon appeared in Russia's most venerated public place, and traditionalists were not amused.