How to Use avatar in a Sentence

avatar

noun
  • She chose a penguin as her personal avatar in the chat room.
  • She has come to be regarded as an avatar of charity and concern for the poor.
  • The avatars will be sold for 100 SAND each and released in three waves.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 27 May 2023
  • The text is displayed as a short blurb over a user's avatar.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The games on the site allow kids to create an agent avatar, and then to go on quests to try to play it.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Wallace Rob Portman, to me, is the best avatar for why the country is at risk.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • He and his cartoon avatar dressed in red long johns and a Napoleon bicorne hat.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Kiss fans will have to wait a little longer to see the band’s first avatar performance.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Then in May, Teams users gained the ability to attend meetings as a 3D avatar.
    Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 21 July 2023
  • But then there’s that Luca Guadagnino avatar to the right, all arched eyebrows with a finger to the temple.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
  • And for those who couldn’t make the Madison Square Garden show — stay tuned, because a Kiss avatar concert may very well be on the way.
    Maria Sherman, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Under the guise of avatars, the three-member film crew entered this world and made contact with its players.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 22 Apr. 2023
  • This might take the form of the ghost in the machine, whether an avatar unleashed from its human counterpart or an app with a mind of its own.
    Ellen Akins, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Throughout the piece, female rage is explored through Bjork’s and Rosalía’s avatars.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • In the virtual auction, her avatar rises on stage, prepared to pitch.
    C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
  • And to coincide with all that, Piers Morgan, avatar of outrage, is predictably up in arms.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Despite everything, after all this time, his in-game avatar looks just like him: not too tall, but lanky.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Will Quentin Tarantino have retired, only to be replaced by an AI avatar?
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But Li is extremely proud of his Twitter avatar – a doodle of his tabby cat.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
  • People packed the pews to listen to the experimental service, which was led by an avatar on a screen above the altar.
    Ingrid Ahlgren, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2023
  • Like many people on real-life video calls, the avatars only feature business attire from the waist up.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2023
  • When people approach the concept, it's designed to display an image of the driver's avatar on the side window.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2023
  • One avatar is a chocolate princess, born in a cocoa tree; another has red devil horns.
    Matt Stevens, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Haley is no avatar of the status quo ante but proof of how debased the party of Abraham Lincoln has become in its thrall to Trump.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Her dad announced her birth on Instagram with some new Reddit avatar icons.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 31 July 2023
  • He’s been living inside my phone as an avatar for a potential short story about hoarding for the bad times ahead.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • At the moment, avatar systems are fragile and expensive.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Or, open the Instagram app, tap the avatar icon on the bottom right, select the hamburger menu on the top right and tap Threads, which will redirect you to your phone's app store.
    Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 6 July 2023
  • Digital avatars that amass followers is not a new idea.
    Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The Sullys learn to love the water but are eventually hunted down by humans who have adopted their big blue avatar guise.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022

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