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.
  • And that means some users will pay big bucks to outfit their avatar with luxury goods.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • There are four possible skin tones for your orphan avatar, but all come with red hair.
    Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • And virtual offices will grapple with the need for new rules—for instance, avatar dress codes.
    Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Just a few months ago, Mark Zuckerberg was bobbing around in the metaverse as a legless avatar.
    Laura Forman, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Schreck, now with Beck as her avatar, scrolls through these and other issues in a variety of attitudes and styles.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Jin Kim had that at as a visual reference and a lot of the discussion centered on what would her mental avatar or projection feel like.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Delving further into this, digital art, fashion and branding can be displayed on someone’s avatar or even traded.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2022
  • She was recognized as a generation-spanning avatar of professional longevity and graceful aging.
    NBC News, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The clip shows a virtual avatar roaming through grocery store aisles and placing items in a cart while a Walmart employee on the corner of the screen guides the customer and recommends items such as red wine.
    Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In a steep competition, Light may be the most underserved of all as a textbook Dead Wife who haunts Eli’s existence as an often-mute avatar of guilt.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
  • In a statement that was published on Friday, Meta said the boundary will create nearly a four foot distance between a person's avatar and all the other avatars in these virtual worlds.
    Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Bobby Kennedy thus lives on in the minds of his admirers as the avatar of a path not taken; the last opportunity the country had to avert the bad things that happened after he was cruelly plucked from this plane.
    Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2022
  • However, his avatar is an image of him in his Oklahoma and Oakland A's uniforms before became a Cardinal.
    Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The player’s avatar, Link, starts on a plateau high above the land of Hyrule.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The avatars will be sold for 100 SAND each and released in three waves.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 27 May 2023
  • The avatar looked cheap and flat — and the internet took note.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The idea of killing him is nonsense; the avatar was never alive in the first place.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The avatar belongs to a colleague, or worse, your boss.
    Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 8 June 2022
  • 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
  • The best part for Klum is that players can be creative with their avatars.
    Adriana Lee, WWD, 3 Oct. 2024
  • But Bryant is quick to say that Lady Bri is an avatar, not her true self.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
  • An avatar plays the trombone while the player moves their mouse up and down to sync with pitches on the screen.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Kiss fans will have to wait a little longer to see the band’s first avatar performance.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2023
  • There’s a kind of weird symbiosis, like with an avatar.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2022
  • But in doing so, Ree tends to see Mats as an avatar of his own; as less of a person in his own right than an extension of the story the filmmaker is using him to tell.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2024

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