How to Use archetype in a Sentence

archetype

noun

• Princess Peach is the archetype of the damsel in distress.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• Since his childhood, he has been drawn to the archetype of the priest.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• The girlboss wasn’t the first time a boss archetype was put on a pedestal.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• This is the archetype, the ye olde, your classic ball drop.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Dec. 2022
• At the heart of the film are two young men who are riffs on gangster-film archetypes.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• The characters feel like they’ve been plucked from a book of archetypes.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
• Sheriffs have dined out on this archetype for years and years.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 16 Feb. 2018
• Just as Libras are known to be the 'artist,' Scorpios have their own archetype: The Shaman.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• Joe sees them from far away and judges them and recognizes the archetype.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2023
• And as the archetype wavered, its pop-culture avatars got weird.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 17 June 2021
• Taking that kind of archetype, the big guy, the big Teddy bear who likes to blow stuff up.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 3 May 2021
• And the vast scope of the show means that there is not enough space made for the historical archetype.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
• Archie had some of the power of an archetype because there were so many like him.
  — David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
• Over the past couple of years, the mean-girl archetype has expanded.
  — Jasmine Arielle Ting, Teen Vogue, 2 May 2018
• The difference is that Trump is the modern male archetype.
  — Laura McGann, Vox, 31 May 2018
• There was a time when Allen was the archetype of the young QB in over his head against a Belichick defense.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• Each of the four members of the Monkees was chosen to fill a certain archetype.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• But Despentes deploys the archetype much as the men before her have done.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
• Out of this divide, a new archetype of leader has emerged.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 3 May 2018
• Our film has plenty of archetypes and references to the book’s myths.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• And Everett’s quarrel is not with this archetype alone.
  — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
• The archetype is an investor who has borrowed to fund his purchase and has his loan called.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
• These two archetypes represent about 80% of the game's monsters.
  — Chris Stobing, PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
• Its sequel is destined to be the archetype of something else: the daughter game.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 12 June 2020
• The answer is somewhat obvious in the archetype of DeRozan’s game.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
• The flying squirrel may be the archetype, and some spiders, lizards and frogs can sail through the air and come in for a soft landing.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2022
• Carefree White Girl was, after all, just a new twist on an old archetype.
  — Wired, 4 Nov. 2019
• And because the film is little more than an action-movie archetype, the mind tends to wander.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 21 Sep. 2019
• The origins of the concept of the inner child go back to Carl Jung’s concept in his divine child archetype.
  — Marc Aurel, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• This archetype has a big vision, charisma and plenty of great ideas.
  — Yec, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024