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typify

[ US /ˈtɪpəˌfaɪ/ ]
[ UK /tˈɪpɪfˌa‍ɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
    What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
  2. embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of
    The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition

How To Use typify In A Sentence

  • As a result, instead of the clean visuals that typify the science fiction genre, we see lens flares, shaky handheld cameras, zooms, and sloppy rack focuses even in CGI shots.
  • Thus the various ritual capacities of North Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers typify the sort of interpersonal agency implicit in Melanesian personal partibility.
  • Several characters that typify a theropod: Hollow, thin-walled bones are diagnostic of theropod dinosaurs.
  • Our home is at the southwestern tip of the valley, nestled among the lace-lichen laden oaks, bay laurel, mountain mahogany, ceanothus and toyon which typify this classically central coast California oak woodland.
  • In the manufacturing plant where I worked, we did have a few Mexican engineers, and they did not seem to typify at all the tone of that story. Interesting tone about immigrants...
  • The look and feel of the sets and lighting are designed to suggest the lurid splashes of colour and active space that typify the conventional comic book.
  • Finally, both hold up as worthy of imitation exemplars or prototypes of people regarded as typifying the virtue or identity in question.
  • Catherine Deneuve seemed to typify cool Gallic elegance.
  • For Hopkins is not so much invoking the metaphysical potential of nature, and its capacity to typify states of mind, as he is making a conservationist plea.
  • So the greatest examples will typify their time and take you back there.
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