How to Use represent in a Sentence

represent

verb

• The new prices represent a substantial increase over last year's prices.
• The company is represented by a local law firm.
• She hired an agent to represent her in the contract negotiations.
• He represented his company at the meeting.
• The court's decision represents a victory for small businesses.
• She represented the United States in figure skating at the Olympics.
• Senator Smith represents the state of Connecticut.
• The funding that expires on March 2 represents four of those bills.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
• In a few of these, wine makes only a cameo appearance, but the songs represent the ways wine fits into our lives.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• The ring has a reversible top and on the alternate top of the ring, the 49 points of rubies represent the number of players who held an active spot on the team.
  — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024
• The union has come close to representing workers at the VW plant in two previous elections.
  — Tom Krisher, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
• Mejia’s sense of home is what the plaza is meant to represent, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2023
• The studied area represents just 0.08 percent of the entire Amazon.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
• One tricky part is that while growth rings on trees represent years, the growth rings on octopus represent days.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
• Some of the models look like hybrids—koalas crossed with wombats, say—that represent what could’ve been walking around with Noah thousands of years ago.
  — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• The drop in labor action is due to a smaller share of workers represented by unions compared to the 1990's and earlier.
  — Sara Chernikoff, The Courier-Journal, 11 Aug. 2023
• The idea that the system represents a war between seniors and younger generations is just wrong.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Allegedly telling his lawyers to falsely represent to the FBI and grand jury that Trump did not have documents called for.
  — ABC News, 11 June 2023
• The United States and China, together, represent about 40% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
• Those factors represent the obstacles in her path, but the movie hardly has room for subplots.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
• Prum’s book has its flaws—the prose is gluey, and Darwin’s theory was perhaps not quite as forgotten as Prum represents it to have been—but the flaws didn’t matter to me.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2023
• In such an environment, Bossier Parish could represent a harbinger of what is to come.
  — Linda K. Wertheimer, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
• The Court, Kan, and institutions like them represent First Israel.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
• Businesses, those who represent them, have been slinging FUD for decades.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Others decried the loss of jobs represented by robot cars.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 11 Aug. 2023
• Farley represents both the best and worst of the incentives and opportunities that have taken this world’s place.
  — Brett Martin, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
• The district represents the northern area of West Sacramento and large portions of Woodland.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
• This pairing, however, would represent the lone scenario in which two teams that have never played in the Super Bowl reached the final weekend.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• In short, an AI system does not have to be put in charge of nuclear weapons to represent a serious threat to humanity.
  — Guillaume Thierry, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• As Danvers and Hank face off over the investigation, Peter is forced to make a choice that Bennett says represents what the character stands for.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024