How to Use incarnate in a Sentence
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Morale is low, and the wind feels like death incarnate.
—Ethan Kuperberg, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2022
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The two are joy incarnate on this song with just the right hint of something sultry.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 July 2020
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The sweet-natured 10-year-old is a kind of fountain of youth incarnate.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
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Then the lights dimmed, and Margaret appeared, incarnate, for the first time since Judy Blume dreamed her up 53 years ago.
—Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
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In many ways, this is comfort food incarnate: bliss conjured briskly with whatever is already on hand.
—Bryan Washington, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
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Logwood was chaos incarnate Friday, the 5-foot-9 forward zipping down the court for coast-to-coast finishes after forcing turnovers.
—Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
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An eight-episode horror/comedy about a woman who’s hesitant to join her friends in motherhood but ends up giving birth to a baby who might be evil incarnate.
—Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
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Every labor dispute involves posturing and hyperbolic language: One side denounces the other as evil incarnate and the other does the same — until a deal is done.
—Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
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So, in summation: the loud, obnoxious, ubiquitous leaf blower is evil incarnate.
—Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
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Noodles are happiness incarnate, and these summer-ready sesame soba noodles are no exception.
—Elyssa Goldberg, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2023
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Spielberg and George Lucas conceived of him more as a body in perpetual motion — the adventure-serial spirit incarnate, the human equivalent of a cliffhanger.
—A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
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Adding more return on the overall investment are the two days leading up to the race, as the experience also includes unfettered entry into the House of Robb at the Wynn, a temporary representation of the magazine incarnate.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
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Morale is low, and the wind feels like death incarnate.
—Ethan Kuperberg, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2022
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The two are joy incarnate on this song with just the right hint of something sultry.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 July 2020
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The sweet-natured 10-year-old is a kind of fountain of youth incarnate.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
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Then the lights dimmed, and Margaret appeared, incarnate, for the first time since Judy Blume dreamed her up 53 years ago.
—Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
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In many ways, this is comfort food incarnate: bliss conjured briskly with whatever is already on hand.
—Bryan Washington, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
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Logwood was chaos incarnate Friday, the 5-foot-9 forward zipping down the court for coast-to-coast finishes after forcing turnovers.
—Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
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An eight-episode horror/comedy about a woman who’s hesitant to join her friends in motherhood but ends up giving birth to a baby who might be evil incarnate.
—Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
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Every labor dispute involves posturing and hyperbolic language: One side denounces the other as evil incarnate and the other does the same — until a deal is done.
—Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
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So, in summation: the loud, obnoxious, ubiquitous leaf blower is evil incarnate.
—Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
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Noodles are happiness incarnate, and these summer-ready sesame soba noodles are no exception.
—Elyssa Goldberg, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2023
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Spielberg and George Lucas conceived of him more as a body in perpetual motion — the adventure-serial spirit incarnate, the human equivalent of a cliffhanger.
—A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
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Adding more return on the overall investment are the two days leading up to the race, as the experience also includes unfettered entry into the House of Robb at the Wynn, a temporary representation of the magazine incarnate.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
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One of the jokes here is that the artist, incarnated as an avuncular soul by Donald Sutherland, has no body of work — at least that anybody’s seen.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
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The digital scale of battle royale was incarnated at the first Fortnite World Cup last weekend in Queens.
—Jason M. Bailey, New York Times, 30 July 2019
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Instead, the scapegoat is demonized, forced to bear and incarnate everyone’s guilt, on top of their own.
—New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
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The eloquence of this thought and feeling, incarnated as affect, proves every year to be deathless.
—Sophie Lewis, Harper's Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022
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Lynn was the complex southern woman incarnate, and nothing expressed that like her songs.
—Marissa R. Moss, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2022
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Over time, his explanation of himself moved from prophet to Jesus Christ incarnate to God.
—Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 2 Feb. 2022
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Most people drank the beer; a few not-so-subtly slugged from their own bottles of baijiu, a grain alcohol that dates back to the Ming Dynasty and burns like regret incarnate.
—Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
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Each of them squares off against the Enemy — incarnated in a white woman of varying age and features, but always dressed in white — with mixed results.
—New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
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In the version of you that made its way over to American audiences, you were presented as sort of England incarnate.
—Vulture, 7 Jan. 2022
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But De Shields, a theater eminence both on and off-Broadway, incarnated in his slick style and bluesy sound the spirit of Mitchell’s bewitching score.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 9 June 2019
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That this strange new arrival is actually the Lord incarnate?
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2021
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The almighty God of the universe gave up His seat at the right hand of the Father in heaven to incarnate as a man, and not as a man with any kind of human authority, but as a man who could be pushed in a ditch with no recourse.
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 27 June 2021
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But Alexis never lost his love for the figurines that had incarnated his childhood fantasies.
—Tom Sancton, Vanities, 17 Aug. 2017
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Last year it briefly incarnated as a place called Lucky’s that served quesadillas, nachos and cheeseburgers.
—Bill Addison, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
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This month, in a startling turn of events, chef Douglas Keane signed a 30-year lease for a modern glass and concrete building in Geyserville that will be incarnated into his new 36-seat vision for Cyrus.
—Carolyn Jung, SFChronicle.com, 25 Feb. 2020
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Not even a month into his Browns career, Myles Garrett has already won over the most important figure in the re-incarnated Browns' brief history.
—Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 17 May 2017
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Her rollout was a tour de force of political action incarnate.
—Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2020
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The building incarnated an idea of air travel’s allure that lingered like a contrail in the national imagination.
—Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
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At first glance, the brothers seem to incarnate the classic western divide between wilderness and civilization, a split that films have long represented as a series of endless white-and-black hat struggles.
—New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
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In particular, the character of Roy Cohn, incarnated by Nathan Lane with insolent glee, seemed to channel the voice of the current political zeitgeist.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
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His bass lines seem to incarnate some principle of human resilience, of slapstick durability.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2019
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The former secretary of state under Richard Nixon has inspired a mountain of biographical studies, some treating him as a hero, others as evil incarnate.
—Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2020
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Sparky was incarnated by Berk Anthony, an illustrator who worked for Disney before joining the Navy.
—Rachel Leingang, azcentral, 20 June 2018
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As an art form in which human beings are incarnated, drama is a natural conduit for metaphysics and ontology.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
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Pyta pursues the theme at magisterial length, showing how Hitler debased the Romantic cult of genius to incarnate himself as a transcendent leader hovering above the fray.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
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Memphis, a guitar-strumming gentle giant with a country bumpkin way — touchingly incarnated by Sheldon D. Brown — is the main target of Waters’ irrational ire.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
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Another is Hemon’s mysterious narrator, who speaks from the future but resides incarnate in these characters.
—Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
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Small of stature, thin but muscled, Cristiano, beautifully incarnated by Aristides de Sousa, cuts an unprepossessing figure.
—João Dumans, New York Times, 21 June 2018
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The minutiae and microaggressions add up to a terrific little one-act comedy, and maybe that’s the city incarnate: millions of simultaneous, overlapping one-acts fighting for better billing in America’s messiest street festival.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2020
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Lush but delicate, expensive but incarnating the abundance of nature, anatomically and scientifically intricate but making no special demands of the viewer, the orchid makes a free gift of its sheer, pleasurable beauty.
—Will Heinrich, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
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