How to Use archetype in a Sentence

archetype

noun

• In the last four years specifically, the archetype of the witch exploded, and rightfully so.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
• Delia's presented a unique outlier from the usual American teen archetype.
  — Lacy Warner, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2020
• Putin’s Russia, regrettably, is the modern archetype, a template going back more than two decades that the others have followed.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024
• Kyle's an archetype too, but an easier, sweeter one; the kind who continues to believe the best of everyone against all evidence.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Geoffrey Hinton is a walking paradox—an archetype of a certain kind of brilliant scientist.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
• Brigitte Bardot is practically synonymous with the blonde bombshell archetype.
  — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Nov. 2020
• The show celebrates and sends up all sorts of witchy archetypes, writing into its lore a ’70s singer à la Stevie Nicks and a wellness influencer mixing up toxic potions.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
• 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 biker’s been such an enduring archetype over the decades.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2024
• On top of that, the nature of the Captain America archetype has changed.
  — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024