How to Use microcosm in a Sentence

microcosm

noun

• The game was a microcosm of the entire season.
• The village is a microcosm of the whole country.
• The scene was a microcosm of the 29-year-old’s rough week at the US Open.
  — Jayna Bardahl, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2022
• For him, the gym is like a microcosm of the world at large.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
• This game proved to be sort of a microcosm of the year.
  — Jim Derry | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• The play was a microcosm of the first few minutes of the half as the Longhorns took a 45-29 lead.
  — Alex Briseno, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2020
• This game was just a microcosm of the way the whole season has been.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2020
• The Obamas’ portraits are a microcosm of the arc of Black art in the last 30 years.
  — Taylor Renee Aldridge, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2021
• In a way, the game was a microcosm of Saguaro’s season.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2022
• In many ways, that’s a microcosm of the season that was.
  — Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 5 Feb. 2020
• The economies of scale are, of course, unique to the microcosm of exotic cars.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 22 July 2023
• The Suns could be a microcosm of how the virus has impacted teams in the league.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2022
• The downturn of the city’s Union Square is a microcosm of that struggle.
  — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• Point guard Mike Conley serves as a nice microcosm of the strides the Jazz have made on that end of the court.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
• This is the problem that's a microcosm of the problem writ large in law.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• The fighting in Donetsk is a microcosm of the wider war.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
• Tonight, in a lot of ways, was a microcosm of our season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 4 Jan. 2020
• The back and forth is a microcosm of a battle that has played out over and over across the region.
  — Rob Copeland, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
• His struggles have been a microcosm of the bullpen's woes.
  — Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
• In some ways, Utah County can be looked at as a microcosm for the state as a whole.
  — Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022
• The last drive was a microcosm of the game, the Chargers converting 14 of 19 third downs.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2021
• The 67-year-old list has long been seen as a microcosm of U.S. business at large.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 June 2021
• The subway, Lieber keeps saying, is a microcosm of the city.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2025
• Joiner likes to think of the room as a microcosm of heaven.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2024
• And, in its own way, the academy is a microcosm of that trend.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Solve the Porter dilemma Porter is a microcosm of the depth problem.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 28 Dec. 2019
• The league’s presence at Gillette is a microcosm of its growth around the nation.
  — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
• The band itself was a kind of a microcosm of a greater South African / African landscape.
  — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
• The stars and behind-the-scenes creatives describe the police station featured in the show as a microcosm of people with different experiences and life stories.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2025
• Those two performances are a microcosm of a season in which the Penguins were terrible through the first six weeks, terrific from Thanksgiving until Christmas, and since have been middle-of-the-pack.
  — Rob Rossi, The Athletic, 12 Jan. 2025