How to Use typify in a Sentence

typify

verb

• His heroic actions typified the courage of all the firefighters at the scene.
• The decor typifies the elegance of royal residences.
• He typifies what a professional athlete should be.
• Gothic architecture is typified by soaring rooflines and stained glass.
• And the best of them, of course, both typify and transcend those eras.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2021
• That type of attitude, wanting what's best for the team, seemed to typify Walsh.
  — Matt Szabo, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Few couples typify the '90s like Cobain and his wife, Courtney Love.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 4 July 2017
• The night was typified on the stat sheet by UConn’s first-half rebound total — seven.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• In many ways, the role Reynolds is most well-known for is also the one that typifies his career and his public persona.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 6 Sep. 2018
• At best, many of the early scientists had ideas that typified the racist societies of their times.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2020
• It is typified by shortness of breath and by coughing up frothy, pink fluid.
  — Allie Conti, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
• Such form was typified by right-back Lucy Bronze, who drilled home a golden second-half effort to score her team's third.
  — Ben Church, CNN, 27 June 2019
• Venable avoids falling into the wolfish smarm that typifies the shopping-show genre.
  — Hal Sundt, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• The fun, bass-heavy sound embraced the joie de vivre that typifies Abidjan, a city known for its legendary partying.
  — Ciku Kimeria, Quartz Africa, 17 Aug. 2019
• Emerging in the early 1970s with a string of hit singles, Newton-John came to typify the decade's anything-goes fashion.
  — Oscar Holland, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
• His second-minute strike to open the scoring typified how Mexico played on this night.
  — Dylan Hernandez, latimes.com, 15 June 2019
• In San Diego’s North County, two women typified that split.
  — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 May 2017
• But the battle with van de Donk — her teammate on French club Lyon — typifies her feistiness.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023
• That reaction typifies the double-edged sword that Pelosi has become for Democrats.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 May 2018
• The previous five weeks had been another one of the roller coaster rides that have typified the fifth-year forward’s career.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Callis also broadcasts for New Japan, and his dual-roles in wrestling typify the evolving nature of the business in 2018.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• San Diego State has typified this approach in its success throughout the years and this season on its run to the national title game.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
• Gleerup also notes that Pedersen typified the humble spirit of the towns.
  — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2019
• This passage typifies one of the shortcomings of Fishman’s book.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• Looping through subway cars and train platforms, the show typified a fluid urban grit.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Dec. 2019
• The system doesn’t typify one-note characters, just as real life shouldn’t.
  — WIRED, 26 July 2023
• No sequence typified Hendricks’ home/road splits better than his first two starts in August.
  — Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Not so long ago, the Warriors built an NBA dynasty on the strength of three homegrown players who came to typify the essence of innovation, teamwork and winning.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• But visibility matters, especially in places long typified as straight, able-bodied, and white—and that’s where folks like Dusty Ballard and Mike Ryan come in.
  — Matt Kirouac, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2024
• The eye invites the viewer to appreciate the action—or, more specifically, the dozens of high-level decisions and acrobatic actions that so often typify Black people at play.
  — Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024