How to Use embodiment in a Sentence
embodiment
noun- She's the embodiment of all our hopes.
- Mother Theresa was often regarded as the embodiment of selfless devotion to others.
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And that music was the embodiment of the idea of what this band is all about.
— Melinda Newman, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024 -
Biles is, in many ways, the embodiment of those changes.
— Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024 -
Michael's whole life is an embodiment of why that isn’t the case.
— Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024 -
Tuck herself is a force, an embodiment of the ebb and flow of life.
— Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023 -
And the next, the embodiment of everything in all of us that just wants to be good, just wants to be loved.
— Carvell Wallace, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2023 -
But also the way that Mariska is just the embodiment of laughter — of joy.
— Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023 -
So this is, to some degree, an artist’s portrait of that and the embodiment of their love.
— Janell Ross, Time, 21 Jan. 2023 -
Active embodiment like this is, for me, the purest form of self-love.
— Abeni Jones, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2022 -
To her, the adult daycare center was the embodiment of love.
— Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 13 Aug. 2021 -
In the film, the parents are the embodiment of art vs. science, battling for their child’s soul.
— Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022 -
In it, the artist lay in the hammock for eight hours as a physical embodiment of leisure.
— Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 June 2024 -
Moms are the true embodiment of ‘non-stop’ because the work never ends.
— Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 3 May 2022 -
As Finnix, Keaton is the embodiment of the good country doctor.
— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021 -
For me, Kelly and Adam are the physical embodiment of the city.
— Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 June 2024 -
These people disliked the West, and Winston Churchill was an embodiment of the West.
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 June 2024 -
But DeJa’s embodiment of the song edged her out just enough to earn her place back, leaving Daya Betty to get the chop.
— Stephen Daw, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2022 -
For Bryant, Carter has been the embodiment of a servant leader.
— Jozsef Papp, ajc, 19 Feb. 2023 -
Khaby is the embodiment of what a BOSS stands for today.
— Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022 -
Jokic is the embodiment of the modern N.B.A., where more and more centers decide to bring the ball up themselves.
— New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022 -
Ado’s awe-inspiring voice was an embodiment of the movement of the smoke shown on the enormous center screen.
— Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024 -
This way of standing was seen as an embodiment of high-class decadence.
— Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024 -
The final ingredient in that idyll: a man in a white mask who would become the embodiment of pure evil.
— Jamie Lee Curtis, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022 -
Since then, the hat Napoleon was known to both throw to the floor in fits of anger and carry valiantly into battle has become the embodiment of the tragic hero.
— María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023 -
These folks are the true embodiment of ride-or-die energy.
— Glamour, 27 May 2022 -
That’s what Feyi needed, someone who would be the embodiment of being alive, even through their work.
— Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 24 May 2022 -
Or Jake Lacy, as the embodiment of jerky white-male privilege?
— Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021 -
The mushroom, the embodiment of all things earthy, epitomized this trend.
— Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Feb. 2024 -
There was something unnerving about them—one was concerned about what might happen to these embodiments of Lee’s fantasies.
— Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
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