How to Use prototypical in a Sentence

prototypical

adjective

• But the 6-foot-6 Reed has the size and stroke to be a prototypical 3-and-D guard.
  — Scott Bordow, azcentral, 13 July 2018
• The company, the prototypical stay-at-home stock, is on a tear, up 48.8% in the past year.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 July 2020
• He was named to the Mackey Award watch list last month, and, when healthy, is the prototypical tight end mold with his mix of size, speed and hands.
  — Scott Bell, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2021
• But neither are the prototypical one-and-done stars the Jayhawks tend to land.
  — Jacob Unruh, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2020
• Cauley-Stein — a prototypical big man who can run the floor and throw down alley-oop dunks — is the type of center Kerr tends to start.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• The soon-to-be 30-year-old is the definition of a prototypical No. 2 tight end.
  — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2018
• There are just as many ways to make art as there is art itself, which is why there’s no prototypical artist’s house.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• Although not prototypical in size, Leary has the arm strength to get the ball where it is needed and has enough speed to get out of jams under a heavy pass rush.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
• Blue, too, has done its market research, and the prototypical space tourist appears to be a wealthy man who is a Star Trek fan.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2021
• Goss is a little thin right now, but his frame is that of a prototypical tackle.
  — David Wilson Diehards, ajc, 11 Oct. 2017
• Their Eliot Ness is a prototypical amber, maltier than a lager, but not as stout as, well, a stout.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2020
• He really wasn't hired as a prototypical head coach in the first place.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2022
• The Orioles do not have a prototypical leadoff man for the modern game — a good hitter who walks and steals bases.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
• Perdomo is a prototypical groundball pitcher, getting guys to hit the ball on the ground 64% of the time.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2017
• In the press, the prototypical Appalachian still looks like a white man in Carhartt and coal miner’s helmet.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 21 Feb. 2018
• George Karlaftis has the prototypical size to play as a defensive end in an even front.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2021
• He's completely affirmed his status as the prototypical center after the Colts took him in the first-round of the draft in 2016.
  — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2021
• Strictly in terms of build, Swinson might be the most prototypical of Oregon’s edge players to be at end.
  — oregonlive, 31 May 2021
• Listed at 6-foot, 229 pounds, Harmon doesn’t have the height of the prototypical linebacker.
  — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Smith is 6-foot-9 with a prototypical frame and explosiveness to play above the rim.
  — Christian Ortega, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2021
• Guyton played right tackle for the Sooners, but has the prototypical size and premium athletic traits to switch to the left side in the pros.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
• Franks, a four-star recruit with prototypical size and arm strength, sat out last year while learning the offense and bulking up.
  — Larry Lage, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• And not just from Shinoda, the group’s emcee, but via a cadre of underground rappers, the kind not likely on the radar of the prototypical Linkin Park fan in 2002.
  — Patrick Hosken, Billboard, 31 July 2017
• But so many people still think of you as Pacey Witter, or as Charlie Conway, the prototypical good guys of our youth.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• To many fans, he was known as the prototypical insult comic.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
• Procter looks like the prototypical old-school beauty queen: flowing blonde hair, bright smile and a face fine enough for a porcelain doll.
  — Amanda Coyne, Cosmopolitan, 9 Sep. 2017
• Cast Away is maybe the most prototypical survival movie in the history of survival movies.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Apr. 2022
• Vassell still checks many boxes and is an ideal fit for the wing-needy Cavs, profiling as the prototypical 3-and-D prospect.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2020
• Consider the prototypical example of visual art that observers scorn: a Jackson Pollock drip painting.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 22 July 2024
• On paper, North Carolina is the prototypical athletic department that should want private equity’s paper: a national brand, with a strong tradition and demanding booster base, but stuck in a second-fiddle power conference.
  — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024