How to Use symbolize in a Sentence

symbolize

verb

• She came to symbolize the women's movement in America.
• Anemone is said to symbolize hope for the good days to come.
  — Town & Country, 15 Feb. 2023
• The teams who symbolized the winners and losers of the trade deadline.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• The bobby pins could symbolize O’Neill’s role in 2023: to serve in an unfussy way.
  — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2024
• In turn, over the years, the sound has also come to symbolize the shift in my skin from oily-in-the-t-zone to completely parched.
  — Dianna Mazzone, Allure, 29 Nov. 2023
• This striped sweater seemed to symbolize all of those joyful teenage years of me shopping at Gap.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2022
• Flipping the piece over reveals the Olympic flame which symbolizes peace, friendship, and hope.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 July 2023
• To symbolize reëntry into the world at the end of the seven days of shiva, the grieving party will take a walk around the block.
  — Matthew Schnipper, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
• The fluffy treat vanishing from the bread symbolizes the way Jesus vanished from the tomb.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
• Last Friday’s event symbolized a light at the end of a tunnel and a dream realized.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 14 Dec. 2023
• Dye eggs Eggs, which symbolize new life, are a notable part of Easter.
  — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
• And in the scenes set in the hedge-fund palaces of Florida, masks symbolize the upstairs-downstairs divide.
  — Vulture, 10 Sep. 2023
• It is bordered by the cultural gardens’ main structure, the pylon, which symbolizes the wall of the Parthenon in Greece.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• But the meaning of the check has changed to symbolize that the user bought a premium account that can help their tweets be seen by more people.
  — Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2023
• The face is also adorned with the skull emblem from the video announcing the band’s return and an hourglass that symbolizes the passage of time.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2024
• On this day, people light lanterns to symbolize driving out darkness and bringing hope to the coming year.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• One of the main design principles of the home is the use of water to symbolize fluidity and freedom.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
• Roses, of course, symbolize love, while peonies are the bloom of compassion.
  — Emma Phelps, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2023
• This one-pot rice dish is a New Year’s staple in the South, symbolizing prosperity and good luck.
  — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
• The Rosca de Reyes has an oval shape to symbolize a crown and has a small doll inside, which represents baby Jesus.
  — Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2024
• The 2002 founding of the AU symbolized the continent’s surge of confidence.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• For centuries, the ritual has symbolized a casting-off of one’s sins of the past year, clearing the path for a fresh start as a new one gets underway.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2023
• This symbolizes moving forward, instead of backward, in the new year.
  — Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2023
• By the time of his death in a plane crash this week, Yevgeny Prigozhin had come to symbolize the criminal trajectory of the Russian state.
  — Michael Kimmage, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2023
• Then, place a candle that symbolizes the sun (ideally in yellow or gold) in the center and positioned above the rest of the candles.
  — Nena Farrell, Sunset Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• The shuttered Nordstrom store that once anchored the retail core, but now symbolizes its decay.
  — Heather Knight Jim Wilson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Camp Aldersgate's new logo shows the tree line and the lake, to show features of the physical camp, as well as a sun and moon to symbolize both day and overnight programming.
  — Kimberly Dishongh, Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2023
• Soon, a pack of wolves chase the singer, who is protected by a lone panther, symbolizing the people in her life who support her.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2023
• The light from within represents the inner strength necessary for the change and the doves, pulling her up, symbolize the reach of an higher state of consciousness.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 5 Jan. 2023
• Fans love to buy this swag to symbolize their loyalty and connection with other fans.
  — Jay Van Bavel and Dominic Packer, Quartz, 25 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024